There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.

It is better to burn the candle at both ends, and in the middle, too, than to put it away in the closet and let the mice eat it.

It is better to follow even the shadow of the best, than to remain content with the worst.

Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.

I shall grow old, but never lose life's zest, because the road's last turn will be the best.

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

We may be able to tell how many stars are in the Milky Way; we may be able to count the petals of every flower, and number the bones of every bird; but unless faith leads us to a deeper understanding, a more reverent comprehension of the significance of the universe, God can be no more pleased with our knowledge than the painter is pleased with the fly which touches his picture with its feelers, and sips the varnish from the surface, and dies without dreaming of the meaning, thought, feeling, embodied in the colors.