Where sin was hatch'd, let tears now wash the nest, Where life was lost, recover life with cries.

God gave Himself to you: give yourself to God.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live.

When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.

The saddest birds a season find to sing,The roughest storm a calm may soon allay;Thus with succeeding turns God tempereth all,That men may hope to rise yet fear to fall.

I feel no care of coin,Well-doing is my wealth;My mind to me an empire is,While grace affordeth health.

My mind to me an empire is.

Christianity is warfare, and Christians are spiritualsoldiers.

Few have all they need, none all they wish.

What thought can think, another thought can mend.

I wealthiest am when richest in remorse.

Wisdom is a sacred gift from God.

I have never written a note I didn't mean.

Practically the whole human race is hypnotized because it thinks what somebody else told it to think.

Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.

An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.

If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.

The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.

Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms of the nation.

In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.

Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.