A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.

No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.

Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing.

Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live.

Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.