“Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.”

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.

If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.