"Smart lad, to slip betimes away From fields where glory does not stay And early though the laurel grows It withers quicker than the rose."

"The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail."

"Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man."

"The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild; He has devoured the infant child. The infant child is not aware It has been eaten by a bear." "Infant Innocence"

"Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write."

"He would not stay for me, and who can wonder?     He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder,     And went with half my life about my ways."

"The tree of man was never quiet: Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I."

"In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning."

"Halt by the headstone naming The heart no longer stirred, And say the lad that loved you Was one that kept his word."

"Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure."

"To stand up straight and tread the turning mill, To lie flat and know nothing and be still, Are the two trades of man; and which is worse I know not, but I know that both are ill."

"Lie you easy, dream you light, And sleep you fast for aye; And luckier may you find the night Than ever you found the day."

"Here dead lie we because we did not choose To live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; But young men think it is, and we were young."

"Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure."

"Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young."

"I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one."

"June suns, you cannot store them To warm the winter's cold, The lad that hopes for heaven Shall fill his mouth with mould."

"Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under."

"I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made."

"Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here I am in hell."

"The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came."

"All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever."

"Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land."

“You are braver then you believe, stronger then you seem, and smarter then you think.”