They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin..

The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the foot….

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame..

Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it..

They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silenc….

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

Who knows whither the clouds have fled? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake; And the eyes forget the tears they have shed, The heart forgets i….

In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognitio….

Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears; Are they wet Even yet With the thought of other years?.

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; Then let it come: I have no dread of what Is called for by the instinct of mankind. Nor think I that G….

The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude..

Some kind of pace may be got out of the eeriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood..

In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past..

Many-sidedness of culture makes our vision clearer and keener in particulars..

God's livery is a very plain one; but its wearers have good reason to be content. If it have not so much gold-lace about it as Satan's, it keeps out ….

Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just; Then it is t….

Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it would not be wise to hold everyone an enemy w….

Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice..

And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light..

Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field..

Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men..