If you would hit the mark you must aim a little above it: Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
Speaking words of endearment where words of comfort availed not.
Lull me to sleep, ye winds, whose fitful soundSeems from some faint Aeolian harp-string caught;Seal up the hundred wakeful eyes of thoughtAs Hermes with his lyre in sleep profoundThe hundred wakeful e...
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day,Shall fold their tents like the Arabs,and silently steal away.
Today is the blocks with which we build.
Act-act in the living present!
Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Be still sad heart and cease repining Behind the clouds the sun is shining Thy fate is the common fate of all Into each life some rain must fall - Some days must be dark and dreary.
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
The soul ... is audible not visible.
Time ... is the life of the soul.
Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.
Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart.
A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
The day is done, and the darknessFalls from the wings of Night,As a feather is wafted downwardFrom an eagle in his flight.I see the lights of the villageGleam through the rain and the mist,And a feeli...