Those who love are but one step from heaven.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having something that you believe in to say, and making the parts of speech vividly conscious of it.

And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.