As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.

It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.

Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.

It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.