Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

The worst evil is not to commit crimes, but to fail to do the good one might have done.

The sound circulated like an autonomous being whose tentacles needed to experience a sensitive awareness of the terrain.

What is love after all but trusting in the unknown.

Remember the Creator in the days of your youth.

Vision is tomorrow's reality expressed as an idea today.

Those who labor unselfishly in behalf of others, with no thought of remuneration, will be physically and spiritually refreshed and renewed.

Tricky the paths a long love might follow, like the spiral down twists of a raindrop on a windowpane.

They only fall, that strive to move, Or lose, that care to keep.

I don’t abstract from anything.…I am involved with real space, the room itself, real light, and real surface.

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.