Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.

Although I may express myself with some degree of pleasantry the purport of my words is entirely serious.

When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.