Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.

Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.

Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.

Into each life some rain must fall.

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

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.

If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

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.