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

The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.