Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?

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

The greatest engineering is the engineering of men.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.