I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.

People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.

We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!

All great successes are the triumph of persistence.

The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a dog turns a spit. Then he is part of the machine he moves; the man is lost.

The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them.