There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.

The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.

Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.

The gift without the giver is rare.

Over our manhood bend the skies; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies; With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite And to our age’s drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea.

The one thing finished in this hasty world.