Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.
[Science is] piecemeal revelation.
America is the only place where man is full-grown!