Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical.

Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.

Beauty rests on necessities.

The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm. The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. Poverty is its ornament. It does not need plenty, and can very well abide its loss.

The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.

Whoever has had the experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power. Each pulse from that heart isan oath from the Most High. I know not what the word sublime means, if it be not the intimations, in this infant, of a terrific force.