There the great Planter plants Of fruitful worlds the grain, And with a million spells enchants The souls that walk in pain.

The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the country which they represent: nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and so true as in them; nowhere so pure from a selfish infusion.

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.

When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and others according to things, i.e. property.

Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the ruts of the last generation, but that wise men thinking for themselves and heartily seeking the good of mankind, and counting the cost of innovation, should dare to arouse the young to a just and heroic life; that the moral nature should be addressed in the school-room, and children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue?