Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.

Carve every word before you let it fall.

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.

Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.