Be an opener of doors

Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses yet it does not surprise the moral sentiment that was older and awaited expectant these larger insights.

In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.

If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.

But, if we explore the literature of Heroism, we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian. To him we owe the Brasidas, the Dion, the Epaminodas, the Scipio of old, and I must think we are more deeply indebted to him than to all the ancient writers. Each of his "Lives" is a refutation to the despondency and cowardice of our religious and political theorists. A wild courage, a Stoicism not of the schools, but of the blood, shines in every anecdote, and had given that book immense fame.

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.