“If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.”

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.

Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.

Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.

There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.

People go on marrying because they can’t resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month’s pleasure with a life’s discomfort.

Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.

One cannot choose how one’s life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage

The place to begin the task of eliminating evil is within yourself.

There’s a story behind everything but behind all your stories is always your mother’s story because hers is where yours begins.

The highest manifestation of true leadership is to identify one’s replacement and to begin mentoring him or her.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

I can feel hope beginning to sprout from all parts of me that were once punctured.

Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.

Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.