There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy.

A journey is an achievement, Maria, just as much as a mathematical proof.

It is not wit merely, but temper, which must form the well-bred man. In the same manner it is not a head merely, but a heart and resolution, which must complete the real philosopher.

A loving maiden grows unconsciously more bold.

A merry companion is as good as a wagon.

Ah, the first rule of public speaking -- always start with a joke.

Working for a big company is, I believe, much risker than it looks.

Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.

How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?

I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.