"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment."

"A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory."

"All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness."

"Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist."

"Peace of heart is the greatest luxury life can bestow upon the mortal traveler — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans."

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."

"There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare."