"Trust thyself : every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age..."

"Virtues are, in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade."

"Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much?

Have you reckon'd the earth much?

Have you practis'd so long to learn to read ?

Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning

of poems ?"

"I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree,

And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk,

Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,

But dipped its top and set me down again."

Or

Write a critical note on Mark Twain as a popular and amusing novelist on the basis of your study of his novels.

Or

Write a critical note on Walt Whitman as a poet.

Or

Critically examine the achievements of Eugene O'Neill as an important American playwright.