Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.

Sit loosely in the saddle.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

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.

To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity.