The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show. A companion with whom I was sailing one very windy but bright moonlight night, when the stars were few and faint, thought that a man could get along with them,-though he was considerably reduced in his circumstances,-that they were a kind of bread and cheese that never failed.

Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.

The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the divine race.

Why should not a poet's cat be winged as well as his horse?

The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.

A man who has to go to the village to get the news hasn't heard from himself in a long time.

Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.