Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.

Our pain carves out a larger space for love to fill.

For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life’s procession that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite.

...unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.

My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the irretrievable is the worst of human frailties.