While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.

Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!

There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.

Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul, An' risen up earth's greatest nation.

A sneer is the weapon of the weak.