"May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind."

"The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it."

"A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions."

"Fate loves the fearless."

"Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship."

"Faith is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience."

"Darkness is strong and so is Sin But surely God endures forever!"

"Earth's noblest thing a Woman perfected."

"The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman."

"In creating the only hard thing's to begin."

"I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God."

"Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain."

"And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days."

"Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts."

"Good heavens of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed ... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons."

"The heart forgets its sorrow and ache."

"Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character."

"Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide ... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light."

"Freedom is the only law which genius knows."

"A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes."

"On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women."

"Take a winter as you find him and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow with no nonsense in him: and tolerating none in you which is a great comfort in the long run."

"The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere you can't see it - but all the same it is sixteen pounds to the square inch."

"Talent is that which is in a man's power genius is that in whose power a man is."

"A wise man travels to discover himself."

"Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief."

"To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires."

"The surest plan to make a man is, think him so."

"Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty."

"Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace."

"The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude."

"The time is ripe and rotten-ripe for change then let it come."

"Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind."

"Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge."

"Though old the thought and oft exprest 'tis his at last who says it best."

"A ginooine statesman should be on his guard if he must hev beliefs not to b'lieve 'em too hard."

"I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife."

"Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how."

"It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us."

"Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."

"What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us."

"Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review."

"The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers."

"There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat."

"Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances."

"Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light."

"In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking."

"Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed."

"Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character."

"A sneer is the weapon of the weak."