The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard, and mere antinomianism; and the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes. But the...
A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.
America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
Shall we judge a country by the majority or by the minority? By the minority surely.
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed. Ah me! no man goeth alone. All men go in flocks to this saint or that poet, avoiding the God who seeth in secret. Th...
Fear always springsfrom ignorance.
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
Our best thoughts come from others.
Strong men greet war tempest hard times. They wish as Pindar said to tread the floors of hell with necessities as hard as iron.
Whatever limits us we call Fate.
Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
The years teach us much, which the days never knew.
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.