What we call Life is a condition of the soul. And the soul must improve in happiness and wisdom, except by its own fault. These tears in our eyes, these faintings of the flesh, will not hinder such improvement.

Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.

I would build a cloudy House For my thoughts to live in; When for earth too fancy-loose And too low for Heaven! Hush! I talk my dream aloud - I build it bright to see, - I build it on the moonlit cloud, To which I looked with thee.

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.

Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man.

Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.