Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.

Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.

Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.

There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.

A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.

All life is an experiment. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment. I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom. Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions.