The moral equalizes all; enriches, empowers all. It is the coin which buys all, and which all find in their pocket. Under the whipof the driver, the slave shall feel his equality with saints and heroes.

The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far.

Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.

Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace withoutgrandeur, and itself not new but derivative; a vase of fair outline, but empty,--which whoso sees, may fill with what wit and character is in him, but which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible beauty, and emit lightnings on all beholders.

A man's action is only a poicture book of his creed.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.