Loveliest of lovely things are they
On earth, that soonest pass away.
The rose that lives its little hour
Is prized beyond the sculptured flower."

"Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep."

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

"Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger."

"Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness -- a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion."