They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin.

Heaven is neither here nor there to me. Everywhere and nowhere. Just not in between, But I believe in Heaven.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself, who would not exchange the finest show for the poorest reality, who does not so love his work that he is not only glad to give himself for it, but finds rather a gain than a sacrifice in the surrender.

It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century.

And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

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