If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.

Pride eradicates all vices but itself.

He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.

Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.