No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.
A man is related to all nature.
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.
You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.
We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.