'T is heaven alone that is given away; 'T is only God may be had for the asking.

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone! How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare, As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills The bowl between me and those distant hills, And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

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

Among the lessons taught by the French revolution, there is none sadder or more striking than this--that you may make everything else out of the passions of men except a political system that will work, and that there is nothing so pitilessly and unconsciously cruel as sincerity formulated into dogma.