The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.

The newest is but the oldest made visible to our senses.

The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if we prefer, we may say that the laws of Nature are the purest morality.

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

Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.

A true poem is distinguished not so much by a felicitous expression, or any thought it suggests, as by the atmosphere which surrounds it. Most have beauty of outline merely, and are striking as the form and bearing of a stranger; but true verses come toward us indistinctly, as the very breath of all friendliness, and envelop us in their spirit and fragrance.