"Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."
- James Russell Lowell
"Poetry is something to make us wiser and better by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth which God has set in all men's souls."
"There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat."
"What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!"
"O visionary world condition strange Where naught abiding is but only change."
"The time is ripe and rotten-ripe for change then let it come."
"Let us be of good cheer remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen."
"Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof it is a temporary expedient often wise in party politics almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship."
"Fate loves the fearless."
"The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion."