“Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.”

The first great law is to obey.

In love, Jealousy is the great exaggerator.

Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.

Love is the reward of love.

Weep, for the light is dead.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Fear of death is worse than dying.

If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.

Modest humility is beauty’s crown.

What’s old collapses, times change, And new life blossoms in the ruins.

It is through beauty that we arrive at freedom.

From the moment fear begins I have ceased to fear.

There are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth itself.

Stubbornness is not firmness.

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

Have Faith. Where’er thy bark is driven, – The calm’s disport, the tempest’s mirth, – Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven, The habitants of earth.

Circumstances do not shape us so much as they reveal us.

Do not be afraid; our fate cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.

To be alone is the fate of all great minds – a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

Believe in yourself, know that you are great. Keep taking steps forward CHOOSE to run into fate.

What a magical spell those stars cast, making us believe we were written for them.

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

You flowed into me so delicately, like a beautiful twist of fate. I inspired you as you moved me in an alluring turn of phrase.

We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.