Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

There is no death! What seems so is transition; this life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal we call Death.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

A boy's will is the wind's will, and the thought's of youth are long, long thoughhts

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

Fear is the virtue of slaves; but the heart that loveth is willing.