Love is the energy of life.

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce: It's fitter being sane than mad.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet

Are there not, dear Michael, Two points in the adventure of the diver,- One, when a beggar he prepares to plunge; One, when a prince he rises with his pearl? Festus, I plunge.

The great mind knows the power of gentleness.