Eloquence may set fire to reason.

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.

We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.

The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past, and man forgot.

With all humility, I think, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.

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

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.