Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,--he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees.

Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.

Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.

May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.