Be patient, for it is from doubt that knowledge is born.

Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings.

And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless?

Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.

The world of dew is the world of dew. And yet, and yet--

The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.

Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.

While all bodies share the same fate, all voices do not.

All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.

To raise the veil. To see what you're saying goodbye to.

Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

The land is dearer for the sea, The ocean for the shore.

Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty!

I had not seen lawns till fifth grade - big green lawns.

To some extent, each sentence has to be the whole story.

A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.

Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.

And all that you are sorry for is what you haven't done.

Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.

Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is just to stay human.

One should see that all appearance is like mist and fog.

What you see is what you see. What you know is different

I became the unnatural son of a few score of beaten men.

Language is magic: it makes things appear and disappear.

I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.

Wherever I look there is nothing but the image of death.

Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.

When the character's right, looks are a greater delight.

He, who is not prepared today, will be less so tomorrow.

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

Sleep ... peace of the soul, who puttest care to flight.

Dear to the heart of a girl is her own beauty and charm.

The love of country is more powerful than reason itself.

If you've only one breath left, use it to say thank you.

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

Time: all things consume it, love alone makes use of it.

One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.

Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

There is a harmony In autumn, and a luster in its sky...

Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred.

Music lives within thy lips Like a nightingale in roses.

All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.

Originality is being different from oneself, not others.

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.

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