Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.

I love my friends very much, but I find that it is of no use to go to see them. I hate them commonly when I am near them. They belie themselves and deny me continually.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.

Why should not a poet's cat be winged as well as his horse?

Work your vein till it is exhausted, or conducts you to a broader one.