Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust?

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Madame Nature allows no dangerous classes, in the modern sense. She has, doubtless for some wise reason, no mercy for the weak. She rewards each organism according to its works; and if anything grows too weak or stupid to take care of itself, she gives it its due deserts by letting it die and disappear.

Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.