Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?.

There is no more beautiful life than that of a student.

Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. - The Books in My Life.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.