"What is more precious than time? Nothing, for time is life itself."
Time
"There is a beauty in struggle that cannot be found in ease."
Perseverance
"The great object is to leave the world better than we found it."
Gratitude
"I am convinced that the greatest power lies in the power of choice."
Power
"All that we accomplish is nothing if we lose our integrity."
"There is a music in the words of the poets that heals the soul."
Literature
"The great object of life is sensation - to love deeply and truly."
Love
"I have found that the greatest joy comes from giving to others."
Kindness
"What is wealth without health? What is power without peace?"
Wisdom
"There is a strength in vulnerability that the strong cannot understand."
Strength
"The great object is to dream greatly and to dare to pursue those dreams."
Dreams
"I love all that is true, and truth is often found in silence."
Truth
"All that we have achieved is but dust if we have not loved."
Love
"There is hope in the darkness, if we will but look for it."
Hope
"The great object of life is sensation—to feel that we exist."
Life
"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture on the lonely shore."
Nature
"Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'tis woman's whole existence."
Love
"I have a passion for the name of Mary."
Love
"The great art of life is to moderate our wishes and to accommodate ourselves to things as they are."
Wisdom
"All that we know is nothing, all that we can know is but little."
Knowledge
"Who loves, raves."
Love
"If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad."
Creativity
"Sorrow is the child of too much joy."
Happiness
"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."
Justice
"Conservatism is the politics of nostalgia."
Politics
"Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate."
Success
"I am not fond of the melancholy, yet I will not shrink from the truth."
Truth
"The great object of life is sensation and the pursuit of it."
Motivation
"England with all thy faults, I love thee still."
History
"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods and rapture on the lonely shore."
Adventure