Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love with you.

We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.

When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived.

Generosity is the flower of justice.

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.