I have taken pride in others, never in myself.

From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world's well beaten ways.

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.

The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.