He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.

In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.

A great man is always willing to be little.

No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr.

The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts; and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.

The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken.