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

Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.

A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.

The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near.

The little cares that fretted me, I lost them yesterday Among the fields above the sea, Among the winds at play.

All actual heroes are essential men, And all men possible heroes.

A woman cannot do the thing she ought, which means whatever perfect thing she can, in life, in art, in science, but she fears to let the perfect action take her part and rest there: she must prove what she can do before she does it, -- prate of woman's rights, of woman's mission, woman's function, till the men (who are prating, too, on their side) cry, A woman's function plainly is... to talk. Poor souls, they are very reasonably vexed!