I won some games, not enough to satisfy me, but the losing games happen to be the ones I remember and learn from most. 908
I hold it true, whate’er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most, ‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. 617
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections and the truth of imagination – what the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth – whether it existed before or not. 2.29K
Stop and consider! Life is but a day; a fragile dewdrop on its perilous way from a tree’s summit. 701
The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will. 2.17K
