And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.

Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.

To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.