Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

There is something magnificent in having a country to love.

And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.

The true historical genius, to our thinking, is that which can see the nobler meaning of events that are near him, as the true poet is he who detects the divine in the casual; and we somewhat suspect the depth of his insight into the past who cannot recognize the godlike of to-day under that disguise in which it always visits us.

If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.

Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected.

Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.