A true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the center of things.

Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.

The Church seems to totter to its fall, almost all life extinct. On this occasion, any complaisance would be criminal which told you, whose hope and commission it is to preach the faith of Christ, that the faith of Christ is preached.

Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men; and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.

Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.

God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name will be found to point at original energy.

Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder?