A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said only: "Dreamer, dream no more!"

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.

Am I the reason you breatheOr am I the reason you cry?

The grace of God transforms the sinner into saint.

And I didn't think even eternity would be long enough to fix me.

Here a tower shining brightOnce stood gleaming in the nightWhere now There's just the rubble in the holefrom "White City

This love thing awakened a group of slumbering senses in my body that I never even knew existed.

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

I'm an average nobody. I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.

Only love makes fruitful the soul.

I shall be the first composer in history not to have a biography.

Under loves heavy burden do I sink. --Romeo