"While men are what they are; while they have bad Passions to be roused up: while ruled by men; While all the powers and treasures of a land At beck of the ambitious, wrongs may be Offered, with insult; yea, while rights are worth Maintaining; freedom keeping, or life having, So long dread I, the sword shall shine."

"Music tells no truths."

"America thou half-brother of the world! With something good and bad of every land."

"Who never doubted never half believed Where doubt there truth is—'t is her shadow."

"We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. Life's but a means unto an end; that end Beginning, mean, and end to all things, — God. The dead have all the glory of the world."

"Men might be better if we better deemed Of them. The worst way to improve the world Is to condemn it."

"I cannot be content with less than heaven; Living, and comprehensive of all life. Thee, universal heaven, celestial all; Thee, sacred seat of intellective time; Field of the soul's best wisdom: home of truth, Star-throned."

"Any heart turned Godward feels more joy In one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raised By all the feasts of earth since its foundation."

"Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths."

"Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him."

"Art is man's nature; nature is God's art."

"Evil and good are God's right hand and left."

"Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art."

"Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!"

"He that of such a height hath built his mind, And rear'd the dwelling of his thoughts so strong, As neither fear nor hope can shake the frame Of his resolved powers; nor all the wind Of vanity or malice pierce to wrong His settled peace, or to disturb the same; What a fair seat hath he, from whence he may The boundless wastes and wilds of man survey? And with how free an eye doth he look down Upon these lower regions of turmoil? Where all the storms of passions mainly beat On flesh and blood: where honour, power, renown, Are only gay afflictions, golden toil; Where greatness stands upon as feeble feet, As frailty doth; and only great doth seem To little minds, who do it so esteem."

"For ever by Adversity are wrought The greatest Works of Admiration; And all the Fair Examples of Renown, Out of Distress and Misery are grown."

"And who (in time) knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue? To what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores? What worlds in the yet unformed Occident May come refin'd with th' accents that are ours?"

"This is the thing that I was born to do."

"And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world."

"Sacred religion! mother of form and fear."

"O blessed letters that combine in one All ages past, and make one live with all, By you we do confer with who are gone, And the dead living unto counsel call: By you th'unborn shall have communion Of what we feel, and what doth us befall."

"The stars that have most glory have no rest."

"Devotion, mother of obedience."

"As that the walls worn thin, permit the mind To look out thorough, and his frailty find. 1"

"He hath nothing done that doth not all."

"The bounds once overgone that hold men in, They never stay; but on from bad to worse. Wrongs do not leave off there where they begin, But still beget new mischiefs in their course."

"Who reproves the lame must go upright."

"The thing possessed is not the thing it seems."

"Might, That makes a title where there is no right."

"When better choices are not to be had, We needs must take the seeming best of bad."

"Minions too great argue a King too weak."

"Shame leaves us by degrees."

"Jewels, orators of Love."

"Sweet, silent rhetoric of persuading eyes, Dumb eloquence, whose power doth move the blood More than the words or wisdom of the wise."

"But her will must be obeyed,"

"Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born."

"Care-Charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born, Relieve my languish, and restore the light; With dark forgetting of my care return. And let the day be time enough to mourn The shipwreck of my ill adventured youth"

"And sport, sweet maid, in season of these years, And learn to gather flowers before they wither"

"For women grieve to think they must be old."

"Thou may’st repent that thou hast scorn’d my tears, When Winter snows upon thy sable hairs."

"I that have loved thee thus before thou fadest, My faith shall wax, when thou art in thy waning. The world shall find this miracle in me, That fire can burn when all the matter's spent."

"Men do not weigh the stalk for what it was, When once they find her flow’r, her glory, pass."

"The fairest flower that ever saw the light."

"Sacred on earth; designed a saint above!"