If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you.

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

The devil finds work for idle hands.

I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there had been no accumulation of knowledge, strictly speaking, for posterity; for knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.

The object of love expands and grows before us to eternity, until it includes all that is lovely, and we become all that can love.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere.