The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.

Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the poet.

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.

there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.

Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the mailbag, a college, a book or a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks; it does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil; everything goes to decay.