A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.

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