The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going

The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold

In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms.

Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.