Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.

By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.

I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.

No man should be angry with what is true.

A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong - acting the part of a good man or of a bad.

God ever geometrizes.