If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.

Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.

There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.