Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes..

Daughter of Time, the hypocrite Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems and fagots in t….

We begin with friendships, and all our youth is a reconnoitering and recruiting of the holy fraternity they shall combine for thesalvation of men. Bu….

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to….

Love is the essence of God..

Give all to love; Obey thy heart..

A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds..

Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not..

A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a sch….

The exercise of all the senses is as intense pleasure, as anyone will find, who recovers the use of one after being deprived of it..

For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on their wing; In his every s….

Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamo….

Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk..

We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited..

A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches..

Poets should be law-givers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, and the ….

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, an….

Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God..

I like my boy with his endless sweet soliloquies and iterations and his utter inability to conceive why I should not leave all my nonsense, business,….

When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and rustle of the corn..

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic..