Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
Music is the universal language of mankind.
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.