Let Others Laugh When You Sacrifice Desire

Every Man Has At Times In His Mind The Ideal Of What He Should Be, But Is Not. This Ideal May Be High And Complete, Or It May Be Quite Low And Insufficient; Yet In All Men, That Really Seek To Improve, It Is Better Than The Actual Character... Man Never Falls So Low, That He Can See Nothing Higher Than Himself.

[america Is] A Rebellious Nation. Our Whole History Is Treason; Our Blood Was Attained Before We Were Born; Our Creeds Were Infidelity To The Mother Church; Our Constitution Treason To Our Fatherland.

Such A Large Sweet Fruit Is A Complete Marriage, That It Needs A Very Long Summer To Ripen In And Then A Long Winter To Mellow And Season It.

I Ask No Risen Dust To Teach Me Immortality; I Am Conscious Of Eternal Life.

No Virtue Fades Out Of Mankind. Not Over-hopeful By Inborn Temperament, Cautious By Long Experience, I Yet Never Despair Of Human Virtue.