He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.

He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless? And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the center of his being, and moving not from love thought to love thought, nor from love deeds to other love deeds?

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Love descends upon our souls by the will of God and not by the demand or the plea of the individual.

My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the irretrievable is the worst of human frailties.