Folks never understand the folks they hate.

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

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.

Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best.

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

Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.