Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

Tomorrow sees undone, what happens not to-day; Still forward press, nor never tire! The possible, with steadfast trust, Resolve should be by the forelock grasp. Then she will ne'er let go her clasp, And labors on, because she must.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.

I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.