We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause; Good kings, who disemboweled for a tax; Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy; Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs; And damned the general world for standing up. Now, may the good God pardon all good men!

The essence of all beauty, I call love.

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.

Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.