Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.

Death is another life.

It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.