Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares!

I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady lambent light, are luminous, but not sparkling.

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

When you ask one friend to dine, Give him your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do!

Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood.