Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

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.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American.

As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points.

I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.