The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.

Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.

Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe.

Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.

I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town whichwas appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.