He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.