It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.

It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring.

You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young; What else have I to spur me into song?

Everything we look upon is blest.

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.