I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.
Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.
I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on manโs shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.
There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.