No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.

You never see the stock called Happiness quoted on the exchange.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.

And you will remember that love is not getting, but giving; not a wild dream of pleasure, and a madness of desire — oh no, love is not that — it is goodness, and honour, and peace, and pure living — yes, love is that; and it is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives longest.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.