"Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them."
"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success."
"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society."
"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around."
"The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them."
"What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook."