"How often must we learn this lesson? Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man’s limitations, it is all over with him. Has he talents? has he enterprises? has he knowledge? It boots not. Infinitely alluring and attractive was he to you yesterday, a great hope, a sea to swim in; now, you have found his shores, found it a pond, and you care not if you never see it again."

"Don’t be pushed by your problems, be lead by your dreams."

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us."

"We judge a man’s wisdom by his hope."

"Commit a crime and the world is made of glass."

"

Let me go where’er I will,
I hear a sky-born music still:
It sounds from all things old,
It sounds from all things young,
From all that’s fair, from all that’s foul,
Peals out a cheerful song.

It is not only in the rose,
It is not only in the bird,
Not only where the rainbow glows,
Nor in the song of woman heard,
But in the darkest, meanest things
There alway, alway something sings.

‘T is not in the high stars alone,
Nor in the cup of budding flowers,
Nor in the redbreast’s mellow tone,
Nor in the bow that smiles in showers,
But in the mud and scum of things
There always, always something sings.

"

"If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me."

"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new."

"Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good."

"We must be our own before we can be another’s."