The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.

The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design,--he will presently undervalue the actual object.

Fear is a great instructor.

That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.

Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declares all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate.

Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.