Difficulty is the nurse of greatness..

Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke..

Truth crushed to the earth will rise again!.

And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief..

There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night; And grief may hide an evening guest, But joy shall come with early light..

Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson..

Tender pauses speak The overflow of gladness, When words are all too weak..

Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings..

The groves were God's first temples..

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion..

Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place..

Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile..

A herd of prairie-wolves will enter a field of melons and quarrel about the division of the spoils as fiercely and noisily as so many politicians..

The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep to-night..

The stormy March has come at last, With winds and clouds and changing skies; I hear the rushing of the blast That through the snowy valley flies..

The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine the animadvert upon all politica….

Fairest of all that earth beholds, the hues That live among the clouds, and flush the air, Lingering, and deepening at the hour of dews..

Pleasantly, between the pelting showers, the sunshine gushes down..

I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn..

Follow thou thy choice..

To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language..