It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.

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

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.

Life, not the parson, teaches conduct.

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