Fate loves the fearless.

Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it.

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change... [Truth's] mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past.

It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.