William Butler Yeats

"Patience is the great art of the ages."

"Gratitude is the virtue of the noble."

"Creativity is the pathway to power."

"Justice delayed is democracy defeated."

"Money cannot buy the soul, though it may rent the body."

"Health is the greatest wealth."

"Adventure calls to the brave and the young."

"The imagination is the eye of the soul."

"Technology cannot replace the human heart."

"Power without love is tyranny."

"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."

"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."

"There are no strangers here; only friends you haven't met yet."

"The purpose of rhythm, it has always seemed to me, is to prolong the moment of contemplation."

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

"Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends."

"How can we know the dancer from the dance?"

"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."

"There is another loneliness that comes from love."

"I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

"The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation."

"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."

"A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground."

"The wound that is felt in common by brothers and sisters is felt the deepest."

"We cannot know the truth with head alone."

"Talent is a weight upon the shoulders; genius is an agony upon the brow."

"For beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue."

"In dreams begins responsibility."

"The night can sweat with terror as before we knew it, but when we know that night cannot last always."