Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.

He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.

In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.

Excellence is the new forever.