Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true..

You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable..

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to repr….

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking..

Love prefers twilight to daylight..

The Amen of nature is always a flower..

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse..

Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and….

The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelli….

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time..

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow..

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable..

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience..

See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout..

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of recep….

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men..

When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free….

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel ….

The best servant does his work unseen..

For nothing burns with such amazing speed, As the dry sticks of a religious creed..