Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful, we have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.

Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.

The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.

Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.