A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.

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.

... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.

youth is always sure that change must mean something better.