Let Us Aspire Towards This Living Confidence,

I Laugh, For Hope Hath A Happy Place With Me; If My Boat Sinks, 'tis To Another Sea.

We Smile At The Ignorance Of The Savage Who Cuts Down The Tree In Order To Reach Its Fruit; But The Same Blunder Is Made By Every Person Who Is Over Eager And Impatient In The Pursuit Of Pleasure.

I Am A Living Member Of The Great Family Of All Souls.

The Spirit Of Liberty Is Not Merely, As Multitudes Imagine, A Jealousy Of Our Own Particular Rights, But A Respect For The Rights Of Others, And An Unwillingness That Any Man, Whether High Or Low, Should Be Wronged And Trampled Under Foot.

Poetry Reveals To Us The Loveliness Of Nature, Brings Back The Freshness Of Youthful Feelings, Reviews The Relish Of Simple Pleasures, Keeps Unquenched The Enthusiasm Which Warmed The Springtime Of Our Being, Refines Youthful Love, Strengthens Our Interest In Human Mature, By Vivid Delineations Of Its Tenderest And Softest Feelings, And Through The Brightness Of Its Prophetic Visions, Helps Faith To Lay Hold On The Future Life.