Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.
The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.
I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.
The highest Beauty should be plain set.
We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.
It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.