Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.

Disappointment is often the salt of life.

I look through the grave into heaven.

The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth.

For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.

It seems strange that a butterfly's wing should be woven up so thin and gauzy in the monstrous loom of nature, and be so delicately tipped with fire from such a gross hand, and rainbowed all over in such a storm of thunderous elements. The marvel is that such great forces do such nice work.

No man is so great as mankind.