Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
The sole equality on earth is death.
Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
What men call accident is God's own part.
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.
Imagination is the air of mind.
Kindness is wisdom.
Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.
Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
Music tells no truths.
Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.
America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.