Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!

It is better to be a thorn in the side of a friend than an echo.

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.

Great men are sincere.