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

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

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.