Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.