Influence Is To Be Measured, Not By

Undoubtedly A Man Is To Labor To Better His Condition, But First To Better Himself.

It Is Not The Quantity But The Quality Of Knowledge Which Determines The Mind's Dignity.

No Man Receives The Full Culture Of A Man In Whom The Sensibility To The Beautiful Is Not Cherished; And There Is No Condition Of Life From Which It Should Be Excluded. Of All Luxuries This Is The Cheapest, And The Most At Hand, And Most Important To Those Conditions Where Coarse Labor Tends To Give Grossness To The Mind.

A Clear Thought, A Pure Affection, A Resolute Act Of A Virtuous Will, Have A Dignity Of Quite Another Kind, And Far Higher Than Accumulations Of Brick And Granite And Plaster And Stucco, However Cunningly Put Together.

Most Joyful Let The Poet Be, It Is Through Him That All Men See.