Our beloved ones have not 'gone to a far country.' It is only the veil of sense that separates them from us, and even that veil grows thin when our thoughts reach out to them.

I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.

If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.

What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks where I can bathe my fingers in a cataract of rippling notes, or to clamber over a stone wall into green fields that tumble and roll and climb in riotous gladness!

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields.