The highest end of government is the culture of men.

It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.

Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.

Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.

Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise.

Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character.