He that will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for other's good, is a poor, frozen churl.

If my heart were not light, I would die.

To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished! To endure, and go calmly on! The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!

Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole.

Men's actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence.

Me care for te laws when te laws care for me.