The multitude of the sick shall not make us deny the existence of health.

Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.

If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes.

Every artist was first an amateur.

I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see I am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. Too ridiculous are these airs of age.

Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.

The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it.