That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.

The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful.

We are constantly invited to be who we are.

It gets laughed at because it is a small town, I know, but nevertheless it is a place where great men may be born any day, for fair winds and foul blow right on over it without distinction.

Write while the heat is in you.

I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.

Law never made men a whit more just.