Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.

The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped, and he standing on his genius as a moral teacher, 'tis impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality; and it recedes, as all persons must, before the sublimity of the moral laws.

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.