Don't get to the end of your life and realize you have never lived.
Every sentence is the result of a long probation.
In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.
Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.
It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise.
I think it would be worth the while to introduce a school of children to such [an oak grove], that they may get an idea of the primitive oaks before they are all gone, instead of hiring botanists to lecture to them when it is too late.