The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.
Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.
Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.
We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.
My idea of man’s chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.
There is nothing but God’s grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe.
Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.
Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often makes its entrance from the mother’s corpse.
To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say “give them up,” for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.
All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.
To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.
If we take matrimony at it’s lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
The essence of love is kindness.
So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.
In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way I have to go to bed by day.
A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.
The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.
A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.