Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals

When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.

Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.

A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.