If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

The great soul of this world is just.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!

The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.

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

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.