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

Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it..

Endurance is the crowning quality..

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….

And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl..

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

Among the lessons taught by the French revolution, there is none sadder or more striking than this--that you may make everything else out of the pass….

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

Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart..

For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth..

Ez fer war, I call it murder,- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. . . . . . An' you 've gut to….

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

Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving..

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

There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the de….

Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed..

Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?.

Stern men with empires in their brains..

Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected..

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle..

That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it..