"The human voice is the organ of the soul."

"All things must change to something new, to something strange."

"Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat."

"It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved."

"He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce."

"As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical."

"Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time."

"All things come round to him who will but wait."

"Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose."

"Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find."

"There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings."

"Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night."

"When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music."

"Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions."

"Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak."

"In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer."

"Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues."

"It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun."

"Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied."

"The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service."

"Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him."

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."

"The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds."

"Evil is only good perverted."

"Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author."

"The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."

"However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure."

"Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions."

"Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity."

"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."

"Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind."

"It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong."

"The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts."

"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."

"The nearer the dawn the darker the night."

"They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer."

"The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art."

"Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny."

"Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion."

"A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child."

"Youth comes but once in a lifetime."

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."

"I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets."

"Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom."

"For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."

"Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think."

"The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal."

"Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies."

"Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted."

"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."