“The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds.”

Day’s lustrous eyes grow heavy in sweet death.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

The dignity of man into your hands is given; Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven.

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

Spring flies, and with it all the train it leads; and flowers, in fading, leave us but their seeds.

Ah, to that far distant strand Bridge there was not to convey, Not a bark was near at hand, Yet true love soon found the way.

Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.

Love guides the stars towards each other, the world plan endures only through love.

Whatever lives, lives to die in sorrow. We engage our hearts, and grasp after the things of this world, only to undergo the pang of losing them.

Many a crown shines spotless now that yet was deeply sullied in the winning.

The key to education is the experience of beauty.

In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes.

Speech is always bolder than action.

Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

Religion is simply an ideal. It is an ideal force that tends to free the human being from material bonds.

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.

We’ll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.

His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know.

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love.