I have wished to teach a single lesson, true alike to all men—the lesson of the saving of time.
—David Starr Jordan.
There are so many things—best things—that can only come when youth is past, that it may well happen to many of us to find ourselves happier and happier to the last.
—George Eliot.
This world is no blot for us
Nor blank; it means intensely, and means good.
—Browning.
Poetry frequents and keeps habitable those upper chambers of the mind that open toward the sun’s rising.
—James Russell Lowell.
The individual who cultivates grievances, and who is perpetually exacting explanations of his assumed wrongs, can only be ignored, and left to the education of time and of development.... One does not argue or contend with the foul miasma that settles over stagnant water; one leaves it and climbs to a higher region, where the air is pure and the sunshine fair.