You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again. & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Loved for ourselves. & even loved in spite of ourselves.

You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.

Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing.

Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

Genius: the superhuman in man.

I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.