Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.

Therefore all just persons are satisfied with their own praise. They refuse to explain themselves, and are content that new actions should do them that office. They believe that we communicate without speech, and above speech, and that no right action of ours is quite unaffecting to our friends, at whatever distance; for the influence of action is not to be measured by miles.

We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.

Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.

We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.

There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.

To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.