The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.

Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.

Why should all virtue work in one and the same way? Why should all give dollars? It is very inconvenient to us country folk, and we do not think any good will come of it. We have not dollars; merchants have; let them give them. Farmers will give corn; poets will sing; women will sew; laborers will lend a hand; the children will bring flowers.

Romeo, of dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine. Life, with this pair, has no other aim, asks no more,than Juliet,--than Romeo.

To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.

What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation with his eyes, andfind a new and fervent sense; as a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering. As the journals say, "the italics are ours.