Ne speaketh not; and yet there lies a conversation in his eyes.
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
If we love one another, nothing, in truth, can harm us, whatever mischances may happen.
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
The atmosphere breathes rest and comfort, and the many chambers seem full of welcomes.
Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.
The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes.
Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.
The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.
No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving; as well might the mountain streamlets say they have nothing to give the sea because they are not rivers. Give what you have. To someone it may be better than you dare to think.
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.