Man begins life helpless. The babe is in paroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves it alone, and it comes so slowly to any power of self-protection that mothers say the salvation of the life and health of a young child is a perpetual miracle.

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet

A man in debt is so far a slave.

A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot out winged feet, and serve him for a horse.

The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyone… Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.