The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.
In creating the only hard thing's to begin A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.
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.
Though old the thought and oft exprest 'tis his at last who says it best.
Fate loves the fearless.
Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
Ah men do not know how much strength is in poise that he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
One day with life and heart is more than time enough to find a world.
God'll send the bill to you.
Nature they say doth dote And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan Repeating us by rote.
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.