“It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.”

“Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.”

“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”

“Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.”

“White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.”

“Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.”