Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

We live in the world when we love it.

Who are you, a hundred years from today, reading my poetry with curiosity?

Leave out my name from the gift if it be a burden, but keep my song.

The world has kissed my Soul with its pain, asking for its return in Songs.

The mountain remains unmoved at its seeming defeat by the mist.

When our universe is in harmony with man, the eternal, we know it as truth, we feel it as beauty.

Unless you have found God in your own soul, the whole world will seem meaningless to you.

Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize.

Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.

The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.