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.

Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity

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.

His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle.

In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?"

All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this public opinion that their prosperity depends. It is, therefore, their first duty to purify the element from which they draw the breath of life.