It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact before me and stand aloof from its honor and shame.

When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.

Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.