The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself.

Her skin was white as leprosy.

A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.

Falsehood is fire in stubble; it likewise turns all the light stuff around it into its own substance for a moment, one crackling blazing moment, and then dies; and all its converts are scattered in the wind, without place or evidence of their existence, as viewless as the wind which scatters them.

A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats.