To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.

Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.

Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.

A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.

There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling with denying gestures. And in the nights the heavy earth is falling from all the stars down into loneliness. We all are falling. This hand falls. And look at others: it is in them all. And yet there is one who holds this falling endlessly gently in his hands.