Against the windows the storm comes dashing, Through tattered foliage the hail tears crashing, The blue lightning flashes, The rapid hail clashes... The thunder is rumbling And crashing and crumbling.

Borrowed garments never keep one warm.

There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual

Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.

Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.