It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.

Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

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.

Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.

[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.

Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.