No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.

Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way.

What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!

Hatred is partial, but love is still more so.

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.

To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

All of us, just because we are able to talk, also believe we are able to talk about language.