Better not be at all than not be noble.
Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
Love is the only gold.
God's finger touched him, and he slept.
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'
My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.