Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin.

Its the not the Destination, It's the journey.

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.

There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the poet.

The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it....we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field.

We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.