A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.

Our earth is but a small star in a great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a planet unvexed by war, untroubled by hunger or fear, undivided by senseless distinctions of race, color or theory.

A white rosebud for a guerdon.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.

Lanscape shapes culture.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; there is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the benefit.

Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.

Telling the boss what a good worker you are is worth 1%..showing him is worth 96%.

A library is thought in cold storage.

The wildest colts only make the best horses.

Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.

For trouts are tickled best in muddy water.

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.

When health, affrighted, spreads her rosy wing, And flies with every changing gale of spring.

I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.

Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist He is the true Gospel-bearer that carries it in his hands, in his mouth, and in his heart... A man does not carry it in his heart that does not love it with all his soul; and nobody loves it as he ought, that does not conform to it in his life.

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

To the timid soul, nothing is possible.