“Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.

Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.

Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.

It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

We must not rest until right livelihood is within reach of every human being upon this earth we love and cherish.

There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.

We are not alone and we all have ample creativity within us if we just trust it.

I always had an actor within me.

So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

I looked around and acknowledged that what you see around you is proof of what exists within you.

It is not so much that you are within the cosmos but that the cosmos is within you.

It comes from within no need for iron, a gym, Mental reps of struggle But up in here, failure is a sin.