There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.

Patience and fortitude conquer all things.

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses.