What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.
Happiness is inward, and not outward and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.
Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.