Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds..

An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character beco….

Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibu….

Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. ….

Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us..

Every sin provokes its punishment..

Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance..

Ourselves are cosmic and capacious beyond conjecture, and to experience some notion of the planetary perspective is the richest income from travellin….

Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!.

Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor..

In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as to his future, but after long search and many di….

Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also..

Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep..

A chaste generation would restore Paradise..

The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentimen….

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators..

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes..

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man..

A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight..

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness..

One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's..