The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

Sit loosely in the saddle.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.