Each day is a branch of the Tree of Life laden heavily with fruit. If we lie down lazily beneath it, we may starve; but if we shake the branches, some of the fruit will fall for us.

Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.

In youth all doors open outward; in old age all open inward.

Your education begins where what is called your education is over. Your fate is but the common lot of all.

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm.

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.

From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.

He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.

Difficulty on the way to victory is opportunity for God to work

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

The soul...is audible, not visible.

Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

All things must change To something new, to something strange.

When one is truly in love, one not only says it, but shows it.

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.