No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

There is a quiet at the heart of love, And I have pierced the pain and come to peace.

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.

Take love when love is given.

My soul is a broken field, plowed by pain.

It is strange how often a heart must be broken Before the years can make it wise.

I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.

The leaves fall patiently Nothing remembers or grieves The river takes to the sea The yellow drift of leaves.

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

My heart is a garden tired with autumn.

If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

The poems are all wrong. It's a bang, a really big bang. Not a whimper. And sometimes gold can stay.

Start seeing yourself as God sees you, see yourself through God’s eyes

The single greatest advantage anyone can take into any battle is hope.

A book lives a new life every time it is read.

Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds not stones are the true monuments of the great.

My sense of romance stretches a little further than a barrage balloon.

Of course, of course I'm grateful. How can I not be grateful? I have been afforded such a wonderful life.

I will form good habits and become their slaves.

in this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.