When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

A thought once awakened does not again slumber.

History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.

He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.

What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!