"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."

"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."

"The heart forgets its sorrow and ache."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne."

"Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return."

"Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side."

"An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run."

"The eye is the notebook of the poet."

"Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."

"Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls."

"Every person born into this world their work is born with them."

"The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience."

"True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment."

"The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere."

"There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends."

"In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak."

"Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it."

"There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates."

"The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions."

"What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral."

"No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself."

"Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave."

"One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning."

"Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit."