Home from the lonely cities, time's wreck, and the naked woe, Home…

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.

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

If you can’t have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live in.

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.

The sweetest roamer is a boy's young heart.

I look'd far back into the past, and lo! in bright array, I saw, as in a dream, the forms of ages pass'd away. It was a stately convent, with its old and lofty walls, And gardens with their broad green walks, where soft the footstep falls.