Are you in want of amusement nowadays? Then play a little at the game of getting a living. There was never anything equal to it. Do it temperately, though, and don't sweat.

The newest is but the oldest made visible to our senses.

A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor.

There is an orientalism in the most restless pioneer, and the farthest west is but the farthest east.

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.

Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.