It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.
God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
History is a great dust heap.
Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.