Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

The shadow by my finger cast Divides the future from the past: Before it, sleeps the unborn hour, In darkness, and beyond thy power. Behind its unreturning line, The vanished hour, no longer thine: One hour alone is in thy hands,- The NOW on which the shadow stands.

There is no conflict between the Old and the New; the conflict is between the False and the True.

No matter what theory of the origin of government you adopt, if you follow it out to its legitimate conclusions it will bring you face to face with the moral law.

Those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone.

Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat.

Love is the heart s immortal thirst to be completely known and all forgiven.