“If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.”

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

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

If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Evil is only good perverted.

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

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

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

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

Into each life some rain must fall.

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

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

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

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 existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.

If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?

We must be listened to: above and beyond our personal experience.

If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?

The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.

To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.

I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself… something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.

In every forest, on every farm, in every orchard on earth, it’s what’s under the ground that creates what’s above the ground. That’s why placing your attention on the fruits that you have already grown is futile.