The Indian navigator naturally distinguishes by a name those parts of a stream where he has encountered quick water and forks, andagain, the lakes and smooth water where he can rest his weary arms, since those are the most interesting and more arable parts to him.

I feel as if my life had grown more outward when I can express it.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Music never stops; it is only the listening that is intermittent.

Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.

All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.

It is the man determines what is said, not the words.