Let us be poised, wise and our own today.

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.

It is the dissenter, the theorist, the aspirant, who is quitting this ancient domain to embark on seas of adventure, who engages our interest. Omitting then for the present all notice of the stationary class, we shall find that the movement party divides itself into two classes, the actors, and the students.

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.

An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel.