The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should.

Wait, and thy soul shall speak.

Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or if you have slept or if you have head ache or sciatica or leprosy or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace and not pollute the morning.

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.