"Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters."
"No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty."
"It is never too late to be what you once might have been."
"I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates."
"We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves."
"It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old."
"It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as"
"Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker."
"Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?"
"Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult."
"Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken."
"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone."
"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another."
"The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision."
"There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music."
"Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words."
"If we had a keen vision and feeling of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence."
"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."
"Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking."
"Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing."
"The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance."
"There's no rule so wise but what it's a pity for somebody or other."
"It seems to me we can never give up longing And wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, And we must hunger after them."
"Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities."
"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."