Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.

It may be conjectured that it is cheaper in the long run to lift men up than to hold them down, and that the ballot in their hands is less dangerous to society than a sense of wrong is in their heads.

Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.

Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.