We don't grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.

Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student.

The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.