Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

Age and Aging

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Ambition

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Arts and Artists

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

Change

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

Commitment

Resolve and thou art free.

Critics and Criticism

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

Danger

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Difficulties

Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary.

Dreams

One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.

Fame

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.

Forgiveness

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Grief

Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.

Judgment and Judges

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Life and Living

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Mistakes

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

Nostalgia

A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.

Peace

I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.

Progress

It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.

Remorse

To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.

Service

Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.

Solitude

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

Thoughts and Thinking

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Vision

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.

Youth

Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest!