And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.

A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs.

To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.

Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,--a creed ample enough for this life and the next.

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