My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it

Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.

If you are lucky enough to be a success, by all means enjoy the applause and the adulation of the public. But never, never believe it.

And Thou, vast Ocean! on whole awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin trace.

Are you really listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

There's nothing terrible in death; 'Tis but to cast our robes away, And sleep at night, without a breath To break repose till dawn of day.

As o'er the stormy sea of human Life We sail, until our anchor'd spirits rest In the far haven of Eternity.

The solitary monk who shook the world From pagan slumber, when the gospel trump Thunder' d its challenge from his dauntless lips In peals of truth.

Earth, air, and ocean, glorious three.

So we said to ourselves, if we can remove antibodies from someone who's in the middle of a terrible rejection, and save those kidneys, then we should be able to remove them before surgery

A moment is a mighty thing Beyond the soul's imagination; For in it, though we trace it not, How much there crowds of varied lot How much of life, life cannot see, Darts onward to eternity!

Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men's desires, but by the removal of desire.

But this is a thing that I know--to live with fear is not to live at all. A man will die every moment he is afraid.

The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.

I've learned so much as both a writer and a human.

He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.

I wanted to get out of our thimble of a town, where every stone had eyes.

Names are not always what they seem.

I was always self-taught, there was no-one to study with when I was doing composition.

Joy is the effect which comes when we use our powers.

But why?" "You heard the pay, right? And also, to be near you." Thumbing a tear from my cheek, he added, "Mostly, to be near you.