The true ship is the ship builder.

For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.

As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.

The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.

The shot heard round the world.

In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you, or add one moment to your life,--do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God, and Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.