Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity..

If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, - and that is a book honestly….

Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?.

He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than crushing Hi….

Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past..

We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage..

The true historical genius, to our thinking, is that which can see the nobler meaning of events that are near him, as the true poet is he who detects….

No mud can soil us but the mud we throw..

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

The eye is the notebook of the poet..

Hush! Still as death, The tempest holds his breath As from a sudden will; The rain stops short, but from the eaves You see it drop, and hear it from ….

Those who love are but one step from heaven..

Humbleness is always grace; always dignity.

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

Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality..

Silence is sorrow's best food..

Not as all other women are Is she that to my soul is dear; Her glorious fancies come from far, Beneath the silver evening star, And yet her heart….

New occasions teach new duties..

If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of the oncoming train..

The discontent with the existing order of things pervaded the atmosphere, wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the b….

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