Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render.

Life in us is like the water in a river.

A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for.

The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.

The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.

The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.