This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.

Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use.

Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the magic of sympathy, which exalts the feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all.

Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. 'Tis the vulgar great who come dizened with gold and jewels. Real kings hide away their crowns in their wardrobes, and affect a plain and poor exterior.

No book was ever written down by any but itself.

Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.