Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone.

Concentration is the secret of srength.

I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.

But the man and woman of seventy assume to know all, they have outlived their hope, they renounce aspiration, accept the actual for the necessary and talk down to the young. Let them then become organs of the Holy Ghost; let them be lovers; let them behold truth; and their eyes are uplifted, their wrinkles smoothed, they are perfumed again with hope and power.

Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.