All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.

I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.

If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.

Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.