An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.

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

Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.

Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

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

Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.