The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!... What at such a time are histories, chronologies, traditions, and all written revelations? The brooks sing carols and glees to the spring.

Sell your clothes- keep your thoughts.

This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear.

I could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It would be too cruel.

While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy, he shot it to me on a poisoned arrow.