"Such souls, Whose sudden visitations daze the world, Vanish like lightning, but they leave behind A voice that in the…"

"We figure to ourselves The thing we like; and then we build it up, As chance will have it, on the rock or sand,— For …"

"He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend. Eternity mourns that. ’Tis an ill cure For life’s worst ills, to hav…"

"The world knows nothing of its greatest men."

"His food Was glory, which was poison to his mind And peril to his body."

"In our judgment of men, we are to beware of giving any great importance to occasional acts. By acts of occasional vir…"

"Shy and proud men … are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low characte…"

"Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others."

"Many magnify in words the importance of public duties, but few appreciate them in feeling; and that, not so much for …"

"I have not skill From such a sharp and waspish word as "No" To pluck the sting."