The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

A nation never falls but by suicide.

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

The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.

Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.