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.

That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character seem gone; bleeds with keenest anguish at the undraped spectacle of a valor-ruined man.

Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after.

In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti.

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.

I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.

All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.