No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.

If you meet a sectary, or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines; but meet on what common ground remains,--if onlythat the sun shines, and the rain rains for both; the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it the boundary mountains, on which the eye had fastened, have melted into air.

Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe.

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.

By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.