Wonder is the basis of worship.
Every noble work is at first impossible.
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything.
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Work alone is noble.
History, a distillation of rumour.
Endurance is patience concentrated.
Without kindness there can be no true joy.
Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain tricks of custom: but of all these perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous by simple repetition ceases to be miraculous.
The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.
Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.
Be not a slave of words.
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
Thus must the bewildered Wanderer stand, as so many have done, shouting question after question into the Sibyl-cave of Destiny, and receive no Answer but an Echo. It is all a grim howling of wild beas...
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.