Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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Husband and wife come to look alike at last
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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
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The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.
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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
Friendship
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Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
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No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human soul it takes one that knows it well -- parent, child, brother, sister, intimate.
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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 receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.
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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.
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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
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I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.
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The man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.
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Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
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