“My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.”

The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.

Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it ‘Italy.’

Measure your mind’s height by the shade it casts.

Lose who may-I still can say, Those who win heaven, blest are they!

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.

So, fall asleep love, loved by me for I know love, I am loved by thee.

If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.

What a thing friendship is – World without end.

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

I count life just a stuff To try the soul’s strength on.

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one’s eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.

Night conceals a world but reveals a universe.

Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain.

Most progress is most failure.

Such ever was love’s way: to rise, it stoops.

The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.

The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind

Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house – do not pass by like a dream.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.

Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.

The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get… what you regard as ‘too far’-and when others follow, as they will, move on.