“Don’t let your heart depend on things That ornament life in a fleeting way! He who possesses, let him learn to lose, He who is fortunate, let him learn pain.”

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.

Fate always wins, for our own heart within us Imperiously furthers its designs.

Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

I feel an army in my fist.

Song forbids victorious deeds to die.

To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness.

A deep meaning often lies in old customs.

Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities on all.

Rigor pushed too far is sure to miss its aim, however good, as the bow snaps that is bent too stiffly.

Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.

Innocence has a friend in heaven.

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men’s opinions of us, forms our true honor.

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

That’s the definition of ‘success’ for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.

In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.

A man’s usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.

A man’s worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations.

Our lives depend on vote.

If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.

The more dependent you are, the more ignorant you must be, and that’s how they want you.