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

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

I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.

Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child.

But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.