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

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.