I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.
Category: Friends And Friendship
Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!
Category: Friends And Friendship
All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.''
Category: Genius
There is not grief that does not speak.
Category: Grief
Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.
Category: Grief
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
Category: Health
Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
Category: Illusion
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Category: Judgment And Judges
No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.
Category: Language
Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.
Category: Leaders And Leadership
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
Category: Life And Living
Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.
Category: Life And Living
It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
Category: Love
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
Category: Love
Love gives itself; it is not bought.
Category: Love