However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

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.

Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.

He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.

The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.

I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady lambent light, are luminous, but not sparkling.