Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.

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.

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.