The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.

Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.

The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Æons by, Was-Heavens!-was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles!

Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.

Are not our greatest men as good as lost? The men that walk daily among us, warming us, feeding us, walk shrouded in darkness, mere mythic men.

It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.

The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.