Prayer is the fair and radiant daughter of all the human virtues, the arch connecting heaven and earth, the sweet companion that i...s alike the lion and the dove; and prayer will give you the key of heaven. As pure and as bold as innocence, as strong as all things are that are entire and single, this fair and invincible queen rests on the material world; she has taken possession of it; for, like the sun, she casts about it a sphere of light.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All that stock of arguments [the skeptics] produce to depreciate our faculties, and make mankind appear ignorant and low, are draw...n principally from this head, to wit, that we are under an invincible blindness as to the true and real nature of things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not one man nor a million, but the spirit of liberty that must be preserved. The waves which dash upon the shore are, one by... one, broken, but the ocean conquers nevertheless. It overwhelms the Armada, it wears out the rock. In like manner, whatever the struggle of individuals, the great cause will gather strength.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We flung against their gods, invincible, clear hate;... we fought; frantic, we flung the last imperious, desperate shaft and lost.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero...; and we demand that that hero shall be uniform and invincible. As a literate people we are preoccupied, neither with the race nor the individual, but with the type. Yesterday, we romanticized the "tough guy;" today, we are romanticizing the underprivileged, tough or tender; tomorrow, we shall begin to romanticize the pure primitive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of while the visible and dense matter remains ...as it was.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »