“Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.”

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!

Generosity is the flower of justice.

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

Happiness is like a butterfly.

There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.

What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

Men of cold passions have quick eyes.

I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.

A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

I’ve experienced departure far too much to have the courage and call anyone my own.

Strength so powerful, it makes hurricanes, tornadoes and cyclones tremble, your courage so admirable, monarchs around the world could use you as an example.

It takes a great deal of courage to emerge from the dirt and the hurt and grow and bloom into petals of kindness and love.

Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.

Have the courage to laugh in the places you have cried.

Courage in you need to be more fierce.

It took courage to reach the state of resilience with the adornment of winning over adversity.

Have the courage to be afraid, because fear is a sign that you care deeply. If you care deeply enough, you will be brave enough.