When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.

The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul capable of ecstasy and transport must pay its price in suffering; he who walks upon the heights must sometimes grovel in the dust.

Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.

Content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance.

But somewhere on the great world the sun is always shining, and, just so sure as you live, it will sometime shine on you.

As if by magic, the love of the many comes with the love of the one.

The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.