Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.

It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.

Wait, and thy soul shall speak.

The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own tools; increases his skill and strength and learns the favorable moments and favorable accidents.

We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.

I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.

All mankind love a lover.