All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.

Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

The secret anniversaries of the heart.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

From labor there shall come forth rest.

I am weary of your quarrels, Weary of your wars and bloodshed, Weary of your prayers for vengeance, Of your wranglings and dissensions