There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.

Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.

There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.

Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.

What a man does, that he has. What has he to do with hope or fear? In himself is his might. Let him regard no good as solid but that which is in his nature, and which must grow out of him as long as he exists. The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves; let him scatter them on every wind as the momentary signs of his infinite productiveness.