An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.

Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.

We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal Green - one more, and my bosom Feels new life with an ecstasy.

We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.