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

Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?

Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.

The discontent with the existing order of things pervaded the atmosphere, wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the back door of Asia, found himself knocking at the front door of America.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is...

In the storm, like a prophet o'ermaddened, Thou singest and tossest thy branches; Thy heart with the terror is gladdened, Thou forebodest the dread avalanches.... In the calm thou o'erstretchest the valleys With thine arms, as if blessings imploring, Like an old king led forth from his palace, When his people to battle are pouring.