A little integrity is better than any career.

Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies.

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not.

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so we are.

Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.