Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.

To win the secret of a weed's plain heart.

Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it would not be wise to hold everyone an enemy who could not see her with our own enchanted eyes.

Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where the love of her is strong and healthy, wickedness and wrong cannot long prevail.

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.