The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true; otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and of doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Infinite is the help man can yield to man.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.