Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others..

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys..

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloya….

Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but perhaps please himself nowhere. He can buy a li….

The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design..

A great part of this life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure..

Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming..

Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today..

Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow..

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions..

The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die..

You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese-toasted, mostly-and woke up agai….

Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of wit, A house with lawns enclosing it, A li….

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing..

Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men..

When loud by landside streamlets gush, And clear in the greenwood quires the thrush, With sun on the meadows And songs in the shadows Comes again….

And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss….

In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clea….

Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name..

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 vic….

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect..