The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.
He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.
Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.
America is a land of creators and rebels.
Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.
We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.