 Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair. |
| Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away. |
| It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence. |
| Journalism is literature in a hurry. |
| Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. |
| And we forget because we must and not because we will. |
| To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive. |
| Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair. |
| Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. |
| Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. |
| For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment. |
| The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. |
| Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. |
| Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern. |
| Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show. |
| Greatness is a spiritual condition. |
| Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. |
| The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion. |
| Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall. |
| The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. |
