The surest poison is time.

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

What a new face courage puts on everything!

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.

Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River, and Boston Bay, you think paltry places, and the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography. But here we are; and, if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best. See to it, only, that thyself is here;--and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels, and the Supreme Being, shall not absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.