It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
We arc the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God.
All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.
The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.
We observe with confidence that the truly strong mind, view it as intellect or morality, or under any other aspect, is nowise the mind acquainted with its strength; that here the sign of health is unconsciousness.