The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the experiences of others? Not since the world began has it ever happened. Each man must go through the fire himself.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

The families of our friends are always a disappointment.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings—they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong. How easy that seems! Has any one ever done so? Never. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through the fire.

The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.

Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.