Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

You swore you loved me, and laughed and warned me that you would not love me forever. I did not hear you. You were speaking in a language I did not understand. Never, never, I can conceive of a love which is able to foresee its own termination. Love is its own eternity. Love is in every moment of its being: all time. It is the only glimpse we are permitted of what eternity is. So I did not hear you. The words were nonsense.

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.

The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape

There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.