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.

Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

And what they dare to dream of, date to do.

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.