One lives but once in the world.

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside.

The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of indestructible nature; it works on from eternity to eternity, it is like the sun, which though it seems to set to our mortal eyes, does not really set, but shines on perpetually.