Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God.

The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth

When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say, "Never keep your mind aler.

You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.

One who has never known the turbulence of life, in whom the petals of the mysterious flower within have never opened; such a one may seem happy, may seem a saint, his single track mind may impress the multitude with its power - but he is ill equipped for life's true adventure into the infinite.