The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.
Only that mind draws me which I cannot read.
Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.
Imitation cannot go above its model.
Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.