I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.

The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language, be express'd in arbitrary and rhyming metre, any more than the greatest eloquence, or the truest power and passion.

Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance - is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures