To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

The seed dies into a new life, and so does man.

In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow.

A man must learn to love his children, not because they are his, but because they are children, else his love will be scarcely a better thing at last than the party-spirit of the faithful politician.

There are women who fly their falcons at any game, little birds and all.