No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the poet will instantly prove it false by setting aside its requisitions. It is indeed all that we do not know.

I would not have any one adopt my mode of living on any account.

A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

When a soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

I have not read far in the statutes of this Commonwealth. It is not profitable reading. They do not always say what is true; and they do not always mean what they say.