“My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.”
“Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!”
“So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.”
“That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.”
“'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
“Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.”
“Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things.”
“Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.”
“Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.”
“There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.”
“Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.”
“No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.”
“Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.”
“Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.”
“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.”
“Forgive! How many will say, ''forgive,'' and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!”
“I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.”
“He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.”
“Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.”
“We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.”
“Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.”
“No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.”