Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.

Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.

The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

Every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?

Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.