Fair Venus shines Even in the eve of day, with sweetest beam Propitious shines, and shakes a trembling flood Of softened radiance from her dewy locks.

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

We can only love what we know.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

The first pale blossom of the unripened year.

Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.

It is to hope, though hope were lost.

Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'

Gratitude is medicine for a heart devastated by tragedy.  If you can only be thankful for the blue sky, then do so.

Reality is my drug. The more I have of it, the more power I get and the higher I feel

Today, because I want to be gentle on my back, I listen to jazz.

It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.

Preferences are bad solutions to performance problems.

I try to tell each group that it is not alone, and that the very people who are disheartened by the absence of a national movement are themselves proof of the potential for such a movement.

Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

A moment of kindness can produce a mood of harmony between heaven and earth. Purity of heart can leave a fine example for a hundred generations.