“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”
“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘it will be happier’…”
“‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
“The old order changeth, yielding place to new, and God fulfills himself in many ways.”
“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”
“You can’t have a better tomorrow if you’re thinking about yesterday all the time.”
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
“I am a part of all that I have met.”
“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”
“A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.”
“Be near me when my light is low, when the blood creeps, and the nerves prick and tingle; and the heart is sick and dim with the perfume of the roses that are not there.”
“In the spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin’s breast; in the spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest.”
“Dreams are the touchstones of our character.”
“I am a part of all that I have met.”
“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.”
“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
“To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
“The poet is the scribe of the soul.”
“We are not the same, but we are not strangers.”
“That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”
“A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more.”
“In the heart of the night, the thoughts of the past will keep you warm.”
“The answer is not in the looking, but in the seeking.”
“You have to be willing to fail, to stumble, to fall before you can stand tall.”
“There is no friend like a book, and no enemy like a bad one.”
“Be not deceived by the world; it is full of illusions.”
“We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths.”
“A poet must be a teacher, but a teacher must not necessarily be a poet.”
“Time may heal all wounds, but the scars remain.”
“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
“Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.”
“The light of the world is love.”
“Our dreams are the illustrations of the book we are writing about ourselves.”
“All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.”
“Time, like a petal, falls to earth.”
“Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.”
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
“A dream of the future is worth a thousand regrets of the past.”
“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”
“Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean.”
“The path of duty is the way to glory.”
“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.”
“To be strong is to be in the service of love.”
“Take the time to make your dreams come true, and your life will be better.”
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”
“Every man has his secret sorrow, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
“Only a fool is always right, and the wise man learns from his mistakes.”
“The greatest thing in life is to give yourself to someone who appreciates you.”
“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.”
“The soul is the sunlight of the body.”