What a new face courage puts on everything!

God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

A walk in the woods is only an exalted dream.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.