If you can’t have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must…

You may name a bronze statue Liberty, or a painted figure in a city hall Commerce, or a marble form in a temple Athene or Venus; but what is really there is only a representation of a single woman.

The sweetest roamer is a boy's young heart.

I think that the sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love,—at least I think it is so with you.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

Home from the lonely cities, time's wreck, and the naked woe, Home through the clean great waters where freemen's pennants blow, Home to the land men dream of, where all the nations go.

Hamlet most brings home to us at once the sense of the soul's infinity, and the sense of the doom which not only circumscribes that infinity but appears to be its offspring.