In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along,... step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country... forsakes me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed too, if he allows his mind to be divert...ed from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. Cast about, and see if this feeling has not injured every person you have ever known to fall into it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory--the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have our pa...per allegories but ill comprehended.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of f...eeling.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses,--for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it,...--not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »