Go, speed the stars of Thought On to their shining goals; - The sower scatters broad his seed, The wheat thou strew'st be souls.

The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.

From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.