There was about all the Romans a heroic tone peculiar to ancient life. Their virtues were great and noble, and these virtues madethem great and noble. They possessed a natural majesty that was not put on and taken off at pleasure, as was that of certain eastern monarchs when they put on or took off their garments of Tyrian dye. It is hoped that this is not wholly lost from the world, although the sense of earthly vanity inculcated by Christianity may have swallowed it up in humility.

Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused.

Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.

Until we understand that our grief outweighs a thousand joys, we will never understand what Christianity is all about.

Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.

In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.