"Everything we look upon is blest...." - Quote by William Butler Yeats

“Those men that in their writings are most wiseOwn nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.”

“I cast my heart into my rhymes,That you, in the dim coming times,May know how my heart went with themAfter the red-rose-bordered hem.”

“Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as we look down the winding stair below us we measure our progress by the number of places where we were but no longer are. The journey is both repetitious and progressive; we go both round and upward.”

“That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.”

“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see - i.e. compare it to, something worse or better, that determines whether you are respectively grateful and happy or ungrateful and bitter.”

“You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves praised.”

“Remember that adversity presents us with numerous possibilities for success, if we are just willing to see them.”

“One feels the insignificance of the individual, and it makes one happy.”

“In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.”