True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

The eye is the notebook of the poet.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.