The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

When one is truly in love, one not only says it, but shows it.

An enlightened mind is not hoodwinked; it is not shut up in a gloomy prison till it thinks the walls of its dungeon the limits of the universe, and the reach of its own chain the outer verge of intelligence.

It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth, I knew not where.

So disasters come not singly; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning one another's motions, When the first descends, the others Follow, follow, gathering flock-wiseRound their victim, sick and wounded, First a shadow, then a sorrow, Till the air is dark with anguish.