The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.
No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity
Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.
A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.
Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.