Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.

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.

The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.

Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.

These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread.

Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.

Fate loves the fearless.