You cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself

Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.

The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.

Invention breeds invention.

Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.

Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.