Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?.

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few..

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure..

The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines..

Our ideals are our better selves..

Opposition strengthens the manly will..

The less routine the more life..

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay..

Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith..

None can teach admirably if not loving his task..

The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions..

No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train..

One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends, one fin….

The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasi….

Easy come, easy go... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical.

A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life..

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is bet….

As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal r….

A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the prim….

Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps..

Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself..