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

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

A day may sink or save a realm.

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

Believe me, than in half the creeds.

I am a part of all that I have met.

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

Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

God's finger touched him, and he slept.

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

O earth, what changes hast thou seen!

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

He makes no friends who never made a foe.

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.

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

So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.

Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.

Authority forgets a dying king.

My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.

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

In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.

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

Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.

Better not be at all than not be noble.

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

There's no glory like those who save their country.

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.

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.

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

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

Love is the only gold.

Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.

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

The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.

The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

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

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

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

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

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