Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.

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

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.

No man, I suspect, ever lived long in the country without being bitten by these meteorological ambitions. He likes to be hotter and colder, to have been more deeply snowed up, to have more trees and larger blown down than his neighbors.

For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.

God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs.