Great men always pay deference to greater.

We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.

It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.

Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.

I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.