Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

All perishable is but an allegory.

Live dangerously and you live right.

Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.

I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.

I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy

Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy where my soul may rest, purified and lowly, sanctified and blest.