No labor is hopeless.

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.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

True friends are to people what lighthouses are to ships. No matter how stormy it gets, they stay put and light our way.

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

Hufflepuffs are particularly good finders!

Each morning, despite the unknowns, they made their legs move.

Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.

Those who are wholly God's are always happy.

Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.

We've been in that situation where you're just so happy to be doing what you love to do that you get taken advantage of.

Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.