A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

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.

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it.

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.