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

I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.

Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.