These Are The Times When A Genius

These Are The Times In Which A Genius Would Wish To Live. It Is Not In The Still Calm Of Life, Or The Repose Of A Pacific Station, That Great Characters Are Formed. The Habits Of A Vigorous Mind Are Formed In Contending With Difficulties. Great Necessities Call Out Great Virtues. When A Mind Is Raised, And Animated By Scenes That Engage The Heart, Then Those Qualities Which Would Otherwise Lay Dormant, Wake Into Life And Form The Character Of The Hero And The Statesman.

Well, Knowledge Is A Fine Thing, And Mother Eve Thought So; But She Smarted So Severely For Hers, That Most Of Her Daughters Have Been Afraid Of It Since.

O, I Have Read His Heart In His Wicked Eyes Many A Time. The Very Devil Is In Them.

The House Shakes...with The Roar Of The Cannon. No Sleep For Me Tonight.

My Bursting Heart Must Find Vent At My Pen.