I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.

There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.