The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.

Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.

O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!

How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil.

Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.

The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers.

Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.