Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.

Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.

Commerce has made all winds her mistress.

Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.