When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.

No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.

Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth.

Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.

Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.

A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.

Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.