The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.
Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.