"The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the..."

"Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy..."

"A man who has no office to go to—I don't care who he is—is a trial of which you can have no conception..."