» The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
» Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
» Children always turn to the light.
» The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
» No one but a fool is always right.
» Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.
» To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.
» Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
» Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
» The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.