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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.