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

All men are children, and of one family.

No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.

We boast of our system of education, but why stop at schoolmasters and schoolhouses? We are all schoolmasters, and our schoolhouse is the universe. To attend chiefly to the desk or schoolhouse while we neglect the scenery in which it is placed is absurd. If we do not look out we shall find our find schoolhouse standing in a cow-yard at last.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Love your life, poor as it is.

To forget all about your mistakes adds to them perhaps.