"Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree."

"Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism."

"He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope."

"Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests."

"A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before."

"I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels."

"Where compassion abides, fear and resentment lose their dominion. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"It is a subtle truth that fear will knock at every door; only those with resolved hearts refuse to let it enter — an essential principle for the reflective life."