A Great Mind Can Attend To Little

Whoso Does Not See That Genuine Life Is A Battle And A March Has Poorly Read His Origin And His Destiny.

Genius Hath Electric Power; Which Earth Can Never Tame; Bright Suns May Scorch And Dark Clouds Lower; Its Flash Is Still The Same.

Even If Nothing Worse Than Wasted Mental Effort Could Be Laid To The Charge Of Theology, That Alone Ought To Be Sufficient To Banish It From The Earth, As One Of The Worst Enemies Of Mankind.

There Have Always Been A Large Class Of Thinkers Who Deny That The World Makes Any Progress. They Say We Move In A Circle; That Evils Are Never Conquered, But Only Change Their Forms.

They [slaves] Have Stabbed Themselves For Freedom-jumped Into The Waves For Freedom-starved For Freedom-fought Like Very Tigers For Freedom! But They Have Been Hung, And Burned, And Shot-and Their Tyrants Have Been Their Historians!