None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

My Friend is that one whom I can associate with my choicest thought.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever, At the bottom of my dream.

When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. What we do best or most perfectly is what we have most thoroughly learned by the longest practice, and at length it falls from us without our notice, as a leaf from a tree.

The man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages.