Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.

Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.

Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.

We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.

Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman.

Poets should be law-givers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, and the day's work.