the friend in need is the one who is the friend in deed; ... if people were not friends in need, there was every likelihood that they never would be friends again in any conditions that might obtain.

Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?

Being dead was one thing, getting ready for a wedding another.

Sometimes it seems to me that the more we get hurt in this world the decenter it makes us.

The seasons run with swift feet.

Be sure that you are right; and then go ahead.

I do not believe there is any one study that can be taken up that will broaden the imagination, that will be the source from which will spring more deep thinking and sincere research than the study of astronomy.