Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails.

We are constantly invited to be who we are.

Some poems are for holidays only. They are polished and sweet, but it is the sweetness of sugar, and not such as toil gives to sour bread. The breath with which the poet utters his verse must be that by which he lives.

Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four.

Things do not change; we change.

There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.

We do not live by justice, but by grace.