For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

One monster there is in the world, the idle man.

Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.

Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack its sinews, and all but break its heart, as the rest of us have had to do, in thousand-fold wrestle with the Pythons, and mud-demons, before it can become a babitation for the gods.

Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!

I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.