“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”

“One cannot consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”

“Nunca se debe gatear, cuando se tiene el impulso de volar (Never crawl when the impulse is to fly)”

“The one I felt and still feel most is lack of time. I used to have time to think, to reflect, my mind and I. We would sit together of an evening and listen to the inner melodies of the spirit, which one hears only in leisure moments when the words ofsome loved poet touch a deep, sweet chord in the soul that until then had been silent. But in college there is no time to commune with one's thoughts. One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think. When one enters the portals of learning, one leaves the dearest pleasures--solitude, books and imagination--outside with the whispering pines. I suppose I ought to find some comfort in the thought that I am laying up treasures for future enjoyment, but I am improvident enough to prefer present joy to hoarding riches against a rainy day.”

“Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out.”

“When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”

“When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.”