We pity people too often for the wrong reasons.

There are so many things that we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.

I want to go and see the world. I want to know the world like the palm of my hand.

There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive.

I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.

We do not run from the troubles and dangers that are truly ours, and it is better to learn what they are earlier than later, and if we don't run from the others, we are fools.

Love is purely a creation of the human imagination, it is merely perhaps the most important of all the examples of how the imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.