Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.

Every man is eloquent once in his life.

We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.

What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought. Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

But whoso is heroic will always find crises to try his edge.

In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well.