Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.

Love manifests itself in our bodies as instinctive craving, in our souls as devotion, and in our minds as pride.

There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.

The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.

It is not being out at heels that makes a man discontented, it is being out at heart. To be contented is to be good friends with yourself.

A 'fact' merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.