Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.

The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.

Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other.

Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.

A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.

The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.

There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.