For only by unlearning Wisdom comes..

Fate loves the fearless..

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes..

The idol is the measure of the worshipper..

Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as onl….

All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that had ever lived in it.

Over our manhood bend the skies; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies; With our faint hearts the mountain strives, I….

For Humanity sweeps onward: where today the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands; Far in front the cross stands r….

All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul..

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..

I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed, Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disent….

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change... [Truth's] mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past..

The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human, It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman..

He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty..

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

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

Sorrow is the great idealizer..

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence..

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accurst..

To make the common marvelous is the test of genius..

Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles..