Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.

If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.

To the Bible men will return; and why? Because they cannot do without it.

The nice sense of measure is certainly not one of Nature's gifts to her English children ... we have all of us yielded to infatuation at some moment of our lives.