The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.

Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.

The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic, but discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own.

Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. Set down nothing that will help somebody.

The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know