The recollection of one upward hour Hath more in it to tranquilize and cheer The darkness of despondency, than years Of gayety and pleasure.

Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.

Roses bloom, and then they wither; Cheeks are bright, then fade and die; Shapes of light are wafted hither, Then, like visions, hurry by.

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

Thought can wing its way Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam That hastens on the pinions of the morn.

The thundering voice that wrings, in one dark, damning moment, crimes of years!

I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate.

There is nothing but death Our affections can sever, And till life's latest breath Love shall bind us for ever.

In Eastern lands they talk in flowers, And they tell in a garland their loves and cares; Each blossom that blooms in their garden bowers, On its leaves a mystic language bears.

There are moments of life that we never forget, which brighten and brighten as time steals away.

Sweet flower, thou tellest how hearts as pure and tender as thy leaf, as low and humble as thy stem, will surely know the joy that peace imparts.

Be careful whose advice you heed to!

Don't talk about heaven if you've never been to Bali.

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

Win, lose or draw, you're all my cousins and I love you.

Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives.

Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.

Only when your hearts are empty of the things of the mind, is there love. Then you will know what it is to love without separation, without distance, without time, without fear.

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

I put heavy emphasis on the characters.

Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.