What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Many people know so little what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves and find nothing! Therefore, they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves, either.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.