There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
Who’s not sat tense before his own heart’s curtain.
Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new – and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.
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.
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
In life’s small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know’st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she’ll say to thee, “I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?”
All God’s angels come to us disguised.
The story of any one man’s real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.