The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours.

The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.

An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.

Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.