To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

I could see why she felt attracted to Sam K. Barrows. Birds of a feather, or rather lizards of a scale.

You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world's hard work.

Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance with life.

Like I said, as long as I'm consistent and I try to put my best foot forward, and work as hard as I possibly can, everything else will fall into place - God'll take care of everything.

I have so many boxing gloves around my house that I would get them confused with other gloves.

Trust the Universe. Trust and believe and have faith.

But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that of the Reader.