No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.