Language is fossil Poetry.

The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is right who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day, and be done with it. You have done what you could.

We can only be valued as we make ourselves valuable.

The populace drags down the gods to their own level.