"Wisdom is learning what to overlook."

"The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one."

"The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour."

"Time itself comes in drops."

"I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."

"It is a steadfast truth that let thoughts come and go like clouds across an undisturbed autumn sky — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth."

"Let thoughts come and go like clouds across an undisturbed autumn sky. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."