You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear.

Unless experience be a jewel. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.

Like the watermen that row one way and look another.

It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

A mother understands what a child does not say.

The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.

Man must go back to nature for information.

"There beauty half her glory veils, In cabs, those gondolas on wheels."

Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.

Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.

One must talk about everything according to its nature, how it comes to be and how it grows. Men have talked about the world without paying attention to the world of their own minds, as if they were asleep or absent-minded.

Did ever raven sing so like a lark That gives sweet tidings of the sun's uprise?

The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato,--the only good belonging to him is under ground.

There are two ways to be contented: one is liking what you do, and the other is doing what you like.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. -Carl Sandburg.

Help thi kynne, Crist bit , for ther bygynneth charitie.

Reason, Observation, and Experience -- the Holy Trinity of Science.

A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.