To fail at all is to fail utterly.

If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.

Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.

The idol is the measure of the worshipper.

Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils, which must stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it. For there is no trick of perpetual motion in politics any more than in mechanics.

That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself, who would not exchange the finest show for the poorest reality, who does not so love his work that he is not only glad to give himself for it, but finds rather a gain than a sacrifice in the surrender.