Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.