Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

Our dead brothers and sisters still live for us and bid us think of life, not death-of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

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

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.