What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story.

Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionately to their occupancy of your thoughts.

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again—and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.

Individuals are the sum of their unique experiences, challenges, and accomplishments. What matters is not the barriers they face, but how they choose to confront them. And their race is not to blame for everything—good or bad—that happens in their lives.

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Work is love made visible.

I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.