Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.

Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about.

The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.

Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes.

The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.

For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!

My doom and my strength is to be solitary.