A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed, then is the State safe, but when these things are heard without regard, as above or below us, then is the Commonwealth sick or dead.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

There is no history; only biography.

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it, is a man in alliance with truth and God.

Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.