A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice; and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.

The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.

We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.

To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.

All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.