There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.
The ocean moans over dead men's bones.
The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
No bird has ever uttered note that was not in some first bird's throat; since eden's freshness and man's fall no rose has been original.
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.
What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness.