While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old.

On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part.

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.

To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their significance is vital, not formal; it is to be gathered not simply by taking the words and a dictionary, but by considering their origin and the line of their growth.

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.