Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.

The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.

The cruellest lies are often told in silence.

Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.

Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity.

Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.

What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should'st move My heart so potently?

I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.

Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.

Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

The air is all softness.

We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.