What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts

Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.