Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.

In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be needed.

Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it.

Lavish thousands of dollars on your baby clothes, and after all the child is prettiest when every garment is laid aside. That becoming nakedness, at least, may adorn the chubby darling of the poorest home.

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

Fields are won by those who believe in the winning.

It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.