There are no laws by which we can write Iliads.

Not without design does God write the music of our lives.

We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.