Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing.

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.

when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?