Republics, like individuals, who are benefited by personal sacrifices, are proverbially ungrateful.

- Epes Sargent

There is a just Latin axiom, that he who seeks a reason for everything subverts reason.

- Epes Sargent

A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep!

- Epes Sargent

The cold blast at the casement beats;The window-panes are white;The snow whirls through the empty streets;It is a dreary night!

- Epes Sargent

The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its…

- Epes Sargent

The whole east was flecked With flashing streaks and shafts of amethyst, While a light crimson mist Went up before the mounting luminary, And all the…

- Epes Sargent

True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest …

- Epes Sargent