For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.

Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame.

In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.

Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is charactered in his brain, therefore he is the prophet and discoverer of her secrets. Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

What potent blood hath modest May.