The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.

Man emulates earth Earth emulates heaven Heaven emulates the Way The way emulates nature.

That grand old poem called Winter

The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet.

The sea, vast and wild as it is, bears thus the waste and wrecks of human art to its remotest shore. There is no telling what it may not vomit up.

No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them.