Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men; and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.

In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

Plant your DREAMS and miracles will grow.

The health of the eye demands a horizon.

Personal beauty is then first charming and itself, when it dissatisfies us with any end; when it becomes a story without an end; when it suggests gleams and visions, and not earthly satisfactions; when it makes the beholder feel his unworthiness; when he cannot feel his right to it, though he were Caesar; he cannot feel more right to it than to the firmament and the splendors of a sunset.