... sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.

No man can give me any word but Wait.

Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.

We are each other's magnitude and bond.

What shall I give my children? who are poor, / Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land...

She was afraid to suggest to him that to most people, nothing "happens." That most people merely live from day to day until they die. That, after he had been dead a year, doubtless fewer than five people would think of him oftener than once a year. That there might even come a year when no one on earth would think of him at all.

I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.