Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins?

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be said, that continual success is a proof that a man wisely knows his powers,--it is only to be added, that, in that case, he knows them to be small.

So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.

If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books should be forbid.

There is a woe that is wisdom, a woe that is madness.

The profound calm which only apparently precedes and prophesies of the storm, is perhaps more awful than the storm itself; for indeed, the calm is but the wrapper and envelop of the storm, and contains it in itself, as the seemingly harmless rifle holds the fatal powder, and the ball, and the explosion.

Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.