It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous, and are more tolerant of the severity which breaks hearts and ruins fortunes than of that which falls impotently on the grave.

If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

All of one's life is music, if one touches the notes rightly, and in time.

It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only poetry talking, and the statue, the picture, and the musical composition are poetry acting. Milton and Goethe, at their desks, were not more truly poets than Phidias with his chisel, Raphael at his easel, or deaf Beethoven bending over his piano, inventing and producing strains, which he himself could never hope to hear.