Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

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.

Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.

Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.

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

No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.