The Good are better made by Ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.

Strength doesn't come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't.

Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity.

I lived to write, and wrote to live

I came to the place of my birth and cried: "The friends of my youth, where are they?"--and an echo answered, "Where are they?"

The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till wak'd and kindled by the master's spell, And feeling hearts touch them but lightly--pour A thousand melodies unheard before!