Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.

There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward.

Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.

A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact; both inhere in nature, neither represents it.

One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal Green - one more, and my bosom Feels new life with an ecstasy.

After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.