What is wanted is men of principle, who recognize a higher law than the decision of the majority. The marines and the militia whose bodies were used lately were not men of sense nor of principle; in a high moral sense they were not men at all.

The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the time when a vision as broad shall overlook the same field as freely.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

The only sin in the world is ignorance.

We cannot put a noose around another man's neck without first hanging ourselves.