“Yes. He is quite a good fellow – nobody’s enemy but his own.”

The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

Friendship? Yes Please.

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.

Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmas time.

I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

When you drink of the water, don’t forget the spring from which it flows.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Reflect upon your present blessings.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

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.

Let me pour onto your glass and let it overflow with abundant love; for your eyes tell me they need refilling, But all you have now is an empty bottle of escaped homes and dreams.

It does not matter how much water your glass contains; never pour your water out, if it means sacrificing a refill.

The sound of wind chimes, soothing my mind, removing all the frames of my mind, takes me straight away, to the depth, depth of my mind!

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Hell isn’t other people. Hell is yourself.

Some people are homeless not because they don’t have a roof over their head. but because they’re no more with the people they used to call their home.

The idea of America is a mutt-culture, isn’t it? Who the hell is America if not everybody else?

Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.