Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.

No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.

A very sea of thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.

The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."

Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.

True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.

Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.