Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.

We are adapted to infinity. We are hard to please, and love nothing which ends: and in nature is no end; but every thing, at the end of one use, is lifted into a superior, and the ascent of these things climbs into daemonic and celestial natures.

Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.

All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.