The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.

Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.

We early arrive at the great discovery that there is one mind common to all individual men: that what is individual is less than what is universalthat error, vice and disease have their seat in the superficial or individual nature.

A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.