Character demonstrates itself in trifles.

Youth, ah, Youth! all men's desire and sorrow.

[Death:] The one inexorable thing!

Life is legal tender, and individual character stamps its value. We are from a thousand mints, and all genuine. Despite our infinitely diverse appraisements, we make change for one another. So many ideals planted are worth the great gold of Socrates; so many impious laws broken are worth John Brown.

The hand betrays the heart.

The fears of what may come to pass, I cast them all away, Among the clover scented grass, Among the new-mown hay.

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.