Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

How can the arts overcome the slow dying of men's hearts that we call progress ?

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.

For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon.

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.