Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it may suffer. The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will.

Meek young men grow up in libraries.

The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it

When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.

Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird, the mimic plumage of the insect, has a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal. Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty, that it, has been taken for it.

The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt.