The First Lesson Of History Is That

In The Vaunted Works Of Art, The Master-stroke Is Nature's Part.

We Say The Cows Laid Out Boston. Well, There Are Worse Surveyors.

In Actions Of Enthusiasm, This Drawback Appears: But In Those Lower Activities, Which Have No Higher Aim Than To Make Us More Comfortable And More Cowardly, In Actions Of Cunning, Actions That Steal And Lie, Actions That Divorce The Speculative From The Practical Faculty, And Put A Ban On Reason And Sentiment, There Is Nothing Else But Drawback And Negation.

Imitation Cannot Go Above Its Model.

The Martyr Cannot Be Dishonored. Every Lash Inflicted Is A Tongue Of Fame; Every Prison A More Illustrious Abode.