"The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind."
"Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future."
"The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."
"That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love."
"But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave."
"With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things."
"The child is father of the man."
"In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing."
"Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them."