It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

A noble book! all men's book!

No pressure, no diamonds.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.

Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable barrier, and the sacred air-cities of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality; and man, by his nature, is yet infinite and free.

A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!