One idea lights a thousand candles.

Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.

Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage.

Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind, as we shall yet have an American genius.

The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.