But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.
I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight.
In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart.
Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream.
No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams.
The future is wider than vision, and has no end.
There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and activity.
There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.
You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.
Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.
