Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide.

Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.

The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.

THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private ray: They overleapt the horizon's edge, Searched with Apollo's privilege; Through man, and woman, and sea, and star, Saw the dance of nature forward far; Through worlds, and races, and terms, and times, Saw musical order, and pairing rhymes. Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so.

In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well.