Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest and admiration.
Category Archive: 1822
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.
Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom – all, which makes death a hideous show.
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
And we forget because we must and not because we will.
Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.