The world is large when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side.

The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, And the white rose is a dove.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Anonymity is the fame of the future.

Be silent and safe-silence never betrays you.

When honor comes to you, be ready to take it; But reach not to seize it before it is near.

Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end.

And we who have toiled for freedom's law, have we sought for freedom's soul? Have we learned at last that human right is not a part but the whole?

The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.

Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you, nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.

Doubt is brother-devil to Despair.

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

Everyones' worst problems weigh the same, and it's up to you how heavy that weight is and how much you let it drag you down.

The powers that be understand that sexual freedom or liberation with any kind of joy means they are losing control.

I'm very proud of my Scottish blood.

Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss.

If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

All the monsters in your mind just want to be nice. They want to be kind. They want to play nice. They want to be softer than the storms around. You feel them through the windows and the doors.

But there are a number of attitudes that should not be emotionally or psychologically ingested by young people.

It’s much easier not to know things sometimes.

The outside lights were on, and it was snowing, and it looked like magic. Like we were somewhere else. Like we were someplace better.