But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive orbrute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.

The greatest man in history was the poorest.

Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?

A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds.

It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.