The happy do not believe in miracles.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.

Assuredly there is no more lovely worship of God than that for which no image is required, but which springs up in our breast spontaneously when nature speaks to the soul, and the soul speaks to nature face to face.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.

Life's objective is life itself.