There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.

The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.

I cannot often enough say, that a man is only a relative and representative nature. Each is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth, which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us. If I seek it in him, I shall not find it.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue. Then he is instructed in what is set above him. He learns that his being is without bound; that to the good, to the perfect, he is born, low as he now lies in evil and weakness.

The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.

Beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately, this promised the conquering of the soil, plenty, and beyond this, the adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which labor, ingenuity, and affection for a man's home, could suggest.

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