The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.

This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

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.

Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.

Fashion being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beautiful, loves to do rash and extravagant things. She must be forever new, or she becomes insipid.

And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.