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!

He who breathes deepest lives most.

Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.

My sun sets to raise again.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.

Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest!