The shot heard round the world.

Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health; or--shall I say?--great volumes of animal heat.

Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.

God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be friends.

The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and largercircles, and that without end.

The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.