It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.

History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.

If we suddenly plant our foot, and say, - I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or fabric which I do not know to be innocent, or deal with any person whose whole manner of life is not clear and rational, we shall stand still. Whose is so? Not mine; not thine; not his. But I think we must clear ourselves each one by the interrogation, whether we have earned our bread to-day by the hearty contribution of our energies to the common benefit? and we must not cease to tend to the correction of these flagrant wrongs, by laying one stone aright every day.

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.

The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.