“Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the wavesthat break upon the idle seashore of the mind.”

“The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes.”

“Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts.”

“Thus it is our daughters leave us, Those we love, and those who love us! Just when they have learned to help us, When we are old and lean upon them, Comes a youth with flaunting feathers, With his flute of reeds, a stranger Wanders piping through the village, Beckons to the fairest maiden, And she follows where he leads her, Leaving all things for the stranger!”

“I have you fast in my fortress,And will not let you depart,But put you down into the dungeon,In the round-tower of my heart,And there will I keep you forever,Yes, forever and a day,Till the walls shall crumble to ruin,And moulder in the dust away!”

“To charm, to strengthen, and to teach: these are the three great chords of might.”

“Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.”