Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.

Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.

There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.

Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers.