Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns, whilst it abides for contemplation forever.

Performing on a stool, we've got a sight to make you drool, seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool.

Let him be great, and love shall follow him.

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

Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale, and succor him against himself. Culture redresses this imbalance, puts him among equals and superiors, revives the delicious sense of sympathy, and warns him of the dangers of solitude and repulsion.

We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.