God does not weigh criminality in our scales. We have one absolute, with the seal of authority upon it; and with us an ounce is an ounce, and a pound a pound. God's measure is the heart of the offender,--a balance which varies with every one of us, a balance so delicate that a tear cast in the other side may make the weight of error kick the beam.

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

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face.