I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall

In ourselves are triumph and defeat.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today.

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.