When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,--none of the servants.

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness.

It is the characteristic of great poems that they will yield of their sense in due proportion to the hasty and the deliberate reader. To the practical they will be common sense, and to the wise wisdom; as either the traveler may wet his lips, or an army may fill its water-casks at a full stream.

If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am constantly doing by being what I am.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left.