A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell.

A brave soul is a thing which all things serve.

If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.

I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.

My heart like moon-charmed waters, all unrest.

In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.

Yet through all, we know this tangled skein is in the hands of One, Who sees the end from the beginning: He shall unravel all.