Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.

The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men.

A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.