Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.