Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the nois… - Henry Ward Beecher

There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious out-look; from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the shining city beyond; but how often are these neglected for the lower ones, which have earthward-looking windows!

Raphael did well, and Phidias did well; but it is not painter or sculptor who is making himself most nobly immortal. It is he who is making true impressions upon the mind of man; frescoes for eternity, that will not shine out till the light of heaven reveals them; sculptures, not wrought in outward things, but in the inward nature and character of the soul.

Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is last year's nest from which the bird has flown.