Here must thou be, O man, Strength to thyself - no helper hast thou here - Here keepest thou thy individual state: No other can divide with thee this work, No secondary hand can intervene To fashion this ability. 'Tis thine, The prime and vital principle is thine In the recesses of thy nature, far From any reach of outward fellowship, Else 'tis not thine at all.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.

The silence that is in the starry sky, / The sleep that is among the lonely hills.

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.