To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead.

There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.

So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.