Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
Fate loves the fearless.
God'll send the bill to you.
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.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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.
Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
Earth's noblest thing a Woman perfected.
There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
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.
In creating the only hard thing's to begin A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.
In creating the only hard thing's to begin
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.
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
Though old the thought and oft exprest 'tis his at last who says it best.
One day with life and heart is more than time enough to find a world.