It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.

From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature.

His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle.

To genius life never grows commonplace.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.

Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.