He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.

The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.

In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.

Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.

Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood, of those who press earnestly upon it.