Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.

It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

... it is one of the gains of advancing age that the good of young creatures becomes a more definite intense joy to us. With that renunciation for ourselves which age inevitably brings, we get more freedom of soul to enter into the life of others; what we can never learn they will know, and the gladness which is a departed sunlight to us is rising with the strength of morning to them.

Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.