The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.

The hero is he who is immovably centered.

Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.

All my hurts my garden spade can heal.