1. "Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. "Light! Give me light!" was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour."
2. “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.”
3. "Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness."
4. “Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.”
5. "Pass in, pass in, " the angels say,"
"In to the upper doors,
Nor count compartments of the floors,
But mount paradise
By the stairway of surprise."
6. "Relationships are like Rome. Difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'Golden Age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt...that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soulmate, and your love."
7. “Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
8. ”The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”
9. “The highest result of education is tolerance.”
10. “The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.”
11. "The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers."
12. “There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.”
