Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home.

The first wild-flower of the year is like land after sea.

To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.

It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.

How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!

Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

How much that the world calls selfishness is only generosity with narrow walls,--a too exclusive solicitude to maintain a wife in luxury, or make one's children rich.

There is certainly no defence or water -proof garment against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.

a small amount of kindness can make a large amount of difference

Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.

The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others.

You can actually have a pitch button, you know, to get people on pitch.

A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.

We don't love others when we find them beautiful, we find others beautiful when we love them.

The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.

The true seeing is when there is no seeing.

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria.