Life is a series of surprises..

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events..

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine.

Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me..

No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr..

Pride ruined the angels, Their shame them restores; And the joy that is sweetest Lurks in stings of remorse..

The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd..

To the birds and trees he talks: Caesar of his leafy Rome, There the poet is at home..

The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?.

Concentration is the secret of srength..

In this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions. It is almost all custom and gross sense..

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence..

That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character..

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies..

Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks..

The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. ….

It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist.

Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward..

We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. Th….

All things are known to the soul..

Do what you know and perception is converted into character..