You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. |
Every man is the builder of a temple called his body. |
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when [some]one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. |
The world is but a canvas to the imagination. |
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. |
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. |
There is no remedy for love than to love more. |
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. |
Dreams are the touchstones of our character. |
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. |