To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.

The senses interfere everywhere, and mix their own structure with all they report of.

Self Esteem::"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. I knew a man of simple habits and earnest character who never put out his hands nor opened his lips to court the public, and having survived several rotten reputations of younger men, honor came at last and sat down with him upon his private bench from which he had never stirred."

Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone.

It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.