They only fall, that strive to move, Or lose, that care to keep.

Sorrows humanize our race; tears are the showers that fertilize the world.

Good -humor is goodness and wisdom combined.

Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go, And fight our own shadows forever?

Only by knowledge of that which is not thyself, shall thyself be learned.

There is a pleasure that is born of pain.

No one will learn anything at all, unless one first will learn humility.