It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.