Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.

Going from--toward; it is the history of every one of us.

But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.

We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship.

The poet's, commonly, is not a logger's path, but a woodman's. The logger and pioneer have preceded him, like John the Baptist; eaten the wild honey, it may be, but the locusts also; banished decaying wood and the spongy mosses which feed on it, and built hearths and humanized Nature for him.

When I stand in a library where is all the recorded wit of the world, but none of the recording, a mere accumulated, and not trulycumulative treasure; where immortal works stand side by side with anthologies which did not survive their month, and cobweb and mildew have already spread from these to the binding of those; and happily I am reminded of what poetry is,--I perceive that Shakespeare and Milton did not foresee into what company they were to fall. Alas! that so soon the work of a true poet should be swept into such a dust-hole!

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...