and we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony.

Steady work turns genius to a loom.

When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

It is never too late, no matter how old you get because anytime or any point in your life you can always have a chance to make a difference. You can always make a change for the better no matter what background you derived from. You can always do your best and be all that you can be because you will always be uniquely you. It is why it is always wise to listen to your eternal heart, your eternal instincts, and what it had always strove for and/or to do because really anybody can make a difference not only in their own lives but in the lives of others. It is never too late to shine; never.

There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.

There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.