I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.

We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.

I would study, I would know, I would admire forever.

No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.

We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver.