There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.

A work of real merit finds favor at last.

Labor humanizes, exalts.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Many can argue - not many converse.

Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars; actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll.

A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.