To keep the heart unwrinkled to be hopeful kindly cheerful reverent -that is to triumph over old age.

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door of dreams Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?

Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.

The more a happy and positive person you are, The more successful and easy your life will be.

I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

I think the issue of marriage is a vitally important issue on which I would campaign heavily.

The mark of the true church is an expanding witness to the presence of God.

It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it.

... we each have our fleeting hour.

From a pound of iron, that costs little, a thousand watch-springs can be made, whose value becomes prodigious. The pound you have received from the Lord,--use it faithfully.

Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.

The challenge for the church is how do we have unity about basic beliefs and yet respect individual differences.