“A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.”

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.

My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.

For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent’s love.

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we’d give blood.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.

I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

We don’t get to choose how we break but we get to choose how we rebuild.

Do everything with love, do it because it gives you satisfaction and joy, do it because it feeds your soul, do it because it helps you grow and gives you that confidence in yourself we’re all after.

I wonder if she sees how the waves will leave the sea to be at her feet.

I’m a romantic with a wild heart that loves deep like the poet in me.

The shelter is where I am when I am with myself.

To the girl I was, you taught me to never let another tell you how you should be loved.

To see her smile is to look at all the flowers of the world blossoming at once.

I love the love our hearts beat together as if they’ve finally found their way home.