All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Love is the only gold.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.