To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods, and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. For poetry is not "Devil's wine," but God's wine.

It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also.

An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.

The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs.

A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.