Genius Borrows nobly.

The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!