"Life is real! Life is earnest!<BR>And the grave is not its goal;<BR>Dust thou art, to dust returnest,<BR>Was not spoken of the soul."
"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,<BR>And all the sweet serenity of books."
"To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not."
"It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong."
"A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child."
"Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted."
"Silently one by one,<BR>in the infinite meadows of heaven,<BR>Blossomed the lovely stars,<BR>the forget-me-nots of the angels."
"Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny."
"The heights by great men reached and kept<BR>Were not attained by sudden flight,<BR>But they, while their companions slept,<BR>Were toiling upward in the night."
"The holiest of holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart."
"The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide."
"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility."
"Others will underestimate us, for although we judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, others judge us only by what we have already done."
"Age is opportunity no less than youth itself."
"Were half the power that fills the world with terror,<BR>Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts,<BR>Given to redeem the human mind from error,<BR>There were no need of arsenals and forts."
"Man-like it is to fall into sin; fiendlike it is to dwell therein."
"Music is the universal language of mankind."
"Lives of great men all remind us<br>We can make our lives sublime,<br>And, departing, leave behind us<br>Footprints on the sands of time."
"Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man."
"Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone."
"Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues."
"Trust no future, however pleasant!<BR>Let the dead past bury its dead!<BR>Act, act in the living Present!<BR>Heart within and God overhead."
"The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air."
"To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others."
"Let us then, be up and doing.<BR>With a heart for any fate;<BR>Still achieving, still pursuing,<BR>Learn to labor and to wait."