What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

In love and friendship, small, steady payments on a gold basis are better than immense promissory notes.

And you will remember that love is not getting, but giving; not a wild dream of pleasure, and a madness of desire — oh no, love is not that — it is goodness, and honour, and peace, and pure living — yes, love is that; and it is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives longest.

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.