The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

You hear that boy laughing?you think he's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.

Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.

It takes me several days, after I get back to Boston, to realize that the reference "the president" refers to the president of Harvard and not to a minor official in Washington.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.