To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
A soul mate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communication and communing that take place between us were not the product of intentional efforts, but rather a divine grace. This kind of relationship is so important to the soul that many have said there is nothing more precious in life.
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
As long as you're open-minded you can learn stuff from anyone.
The man who claims he's never done anything courageous doesn't understand what courage really is.
Every time something slips through the cracks, the cracks get bigger.
Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power, and to set up among the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles.