Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.