The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.