'Old times' never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.

Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.

The sweetest roamer is a boy's young heart.

Education has really only one basic factor: one must want it.

To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to lead the noble life.