Every natural action is graceful.

Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.

An empire is an immense egotism.

All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow

An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.