The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it

They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.

Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.

There is in the heart of woman such a deep well of love that no age can freeze it.

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.