A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
God's finger touched him, and he slept.
Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.
Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
Love is the only gold.
Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
For words like Nature half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath And after many a summer dieth the swan.
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.