No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.

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.

True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.