“To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.”

“To know your future you must know your past”

“Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.”

“Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.”

“With you a part of me hath passed away; For in the peopled forest of my mind A tree made leafless by this wintry wind Shall never don again its green array. Chapel and fireside, country road and bay, Have something of their friendliness resigned; Another, if I would, I could not find, And I am grown much older in a day. But yet I treasure in my memory Your gift of charity, and young hearts ease, And the dear honour of your amity; For these once mine, my life is rich with these. And I scarce know which part may greater be,-- What I keep of you, or you rob from me.”

“A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.”

“To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.”