Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry.

The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.

For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.