Epes Sargent Quotes
A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep!
The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage.
The cold blast at the casement beats;The window-panes are white;The snow whirls through the empty streets;It is a dreary night!
There is a just Latin axiom, that he who seeks a reason for everything subverts reason.
True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations.
Republics, like individuals, who are benefited by personal sacrifices, are proverbially ungrateful.