Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.

I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.

The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.