Ability without honor has no value.
Nature hates calculators.
Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.
Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.
Our best history is still poetry.
Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.