“The Moon for all her light and graceHas never learned to know her place.”

“One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.”

“I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.”

“As it is more blessed to receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.”

“The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.”

“I am not bound to please thee with my answer.”

“Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.”

“In maiden meditation, fancy free.”

“The patient must minister to himself”

“The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action.”

“Let a stoic open the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves; that with the exercise of self-trust, new powers shall appear.”

“Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones; Who, though they cannot answer my distress, Yet in some sort they are better than the tribunes, For that they will not intercept my tale: When I do weep, they humbly at my feet Receive my tears and seem to weep with me; And, were they but attired in grave weeds, Rome could afford no tribune like to these.”

“I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company.”

“I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.”

“If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me.”

“The will of man is by his reason sway'd.”

“The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.”