Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray!

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

Why can’t I have my own life?!

We do not need a new moral order

Collectivists see the world the way Mr. Magoo did—as one big blur. They homogenize people in a communal blender, sacrificing the discrete features that make us who we are.

What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.

The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend, - Or the most agonizing Spy - An Enemy - could send -

The people with the most fear have the greatest opportunity to be brave.

Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.

Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.