The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul.

Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.

When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.

There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.

You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world.

Great towers take time to construct.

Man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.