It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.

Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was revealed in their personal lives and in their words.

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.

I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope, That star on life's tremulous ocean.

I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work.

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.