"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."

"Pride and weakness are Siamese twins."

"Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people."

"Whom the heart of man shuts out Sometimes the heart of God takes in."

"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."

"Nature they say doth dote And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan Repeating us by rote."

"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."

"In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes or when she'll say to thee 'I find thee worthy do this deed for me?'"

"Ah men do not know how much strength is in poise that he goes the farthest who goes far enough."

"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."

"Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes."

"Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly."

"All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."

"O visionary world condition strange Where naught abiding is but only change."

"He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft."

"Let us be of good cheer remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen."

"No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him there is always work And tools to work withal for those who will And blessed are the horny hands of toil!"

"Folks never understand the folks they hate."

"They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three."

"Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime."

"If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon."

"Ez for war I call it murder - There you hev it plain and flat I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment for that."

"Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not."

"In creating the only hard thing's to begin. A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak."

"Not failure, but low aim, is crime."

"Not failure but low aim is crime."

"Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found."

"Light is the symbol of truth."

"The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen."

"The question of commonsense is always 'what is it good for?' - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage."

"One day with life and heart is more than time enough to find a world."

"It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested."

"Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."