America is a country of young men.

Criticism is infested with the cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men, and disparages such as say and do not, overlooking the fact, that some men, namely, poets, are natural sayers, sent into the world to the end of expression, and confounds them with those whose province is action, but who quit to imitate the sayers.

Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.

The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo.

For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.

Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.

People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.