Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.

A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.

Of lower states, of acts of routine and sense, we can tell somewhat; but the masterpieces of God, the total growths and universalmovements of the soul, he hideth; they are incalculable. I can know that truth is divine and helpful; but how it shall help me I can have no guess, for so to be is the sole inlet of so to know.

Why should all virtue work in one and the same way? Why should all give dollars? It is very inconvenient to us country folk, and we do not think any good will come of it. We have not dollars; merchants have; let them give them. Farmers will give corn; poets will sing; women will sew; laborers will lend a hand; the children will bring flowers.

Travel is a fools paradise.

But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.