One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!

Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?

It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.

A mother's pride, a father's joy.

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.