He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.

It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.

For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.

Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it exhales symbols of every kind and color, speaks only through the most poetic forms; but first and last, it must still be at bottom a biblical statement of fact.

A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.

Performing on a stool, we've got a sight to make you drool, seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool.