Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.

Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

Ah, tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers, Save that they did not last? Were it not better to forget, Than but remember and regret?

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!

We can't change our fate, because we can't change something which doesn't exist.

How would your life be different if instead of spending your energy and focus on hating those who hate you, you spent your energy and focus on loving those who love you?

Home isn't these four walls. Home is wherever we are together.

If your attention is focused only on the result, then you are no longer in the process. But if you're in the process, then the result is guaranteed.

The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.

The thought in my mind was that I must be a good merchant. If I were a good merchant, the rest would probably take care of itself.

The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of.

Talk to your customers. Find out what they need. Don't pay any attention to the competition. They're not relevant to you.

One ambition of poetry, certainly, is to create a reverberant silence in its wake, one that means more or differently than the silence that preceded the poem.

Goals are only ever a guide; a winding, changing path. It's your heart that will really keep you on tack... and nourished along the way.