The sole equality on earth is death.

Music tells no truths.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

Imagination is the air of mind.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.

Envy’s a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

We live in deeds not years In thoughts not breaths In feelings not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.

The long days are no happier than the short ones.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

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...

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

What men call accident is God’s own part.

Art is man’s nature; nature is God’s art.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

Kindness is wisdom.

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.