A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.