Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.

Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'y thin' thet' s done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same.

In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.

The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

Fate loves the fearless.