"The sum of wisdom is that time..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.”

“A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors. There is no adaptation or universal applicability in men, but each has his special Talent, and the mastery of Successful men consists in adroitly keeping themselves where and when that turn shall be oftenest to be practiced.”

“There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.”

“I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”

“Oh, Mama was a smart woman. It takes a smart woman to fall in love with a good man.”

“Brooding over blunders is the biggest blunder.”

“My chair was nearest to the fireIn every companyThat talked of love or politics,Ere Time transfigured me.”

“Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.”

“As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from a novel read years ago.”