There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Every second is of infinite value.

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.

Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.

If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.

Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.