
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.

Don't be "consistent" but be simple true.

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.