Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity

Hush! Still as death, The tempest holds his breath As from a sudden will; The rain stops short, but from the eaves You see it drop, and hear it from the leaves, All is so bodingly still.

The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.