Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

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.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Light is the symbol of truth.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

Fate loves the fearless.

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.