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.

Difficulties exist to be surmounted.

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow

A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.