There is a god within us, and the heavens Have intercourse with earth; from realms above That spirit comes.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.

Emotions don't distract high performers.

In general, nine-tenths of our happiness depends on our health alone.

I reach my object and say, Wander no more. All else is trial and make-believe.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

He who loses sight of the word of God, falls into despair; the voice of heaven no longer sustains him; he follows only the disorderly tendency of his heart.

Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer.

He warned me the greediest wishes cause the greatest sorrows.

There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.

In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job.