To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life--there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death.

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.

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

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.