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

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

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

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

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

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

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.

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

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

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

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

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

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

God's finger touched him, and he slept.

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

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.

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.

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