Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.

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

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.