Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.

No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory.

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.

The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.