The pale and quiet moon Makes her calm forehead bare, And the last fragments of the storm, Like shattered rigging from a fight at sea, Silent and few, are drifting over me.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.

God does not weigh criminality in our scales. We have one absolute, with the seal of authority upon it; and with us an ounce is an ounce, and a pound a pound. God's measure is the heart of the offender,--a balance which varies with every one of us, a balance so delicate that a tear cast in the other side may make the weight of error kick the beam.

The one thing finished in this hasty world.

Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul, An' risen up earth's greatest nation.