Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Praise is the reflection of virtue.

The midwife of history is violence.

There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

If we are truly disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, we will reach out with love and understanding to all of our neighbors at all times.

I've come to realize that the difference in success or failure is not how you look, how you dress, or how you're educated. It's how you think !

He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

You can love someone like your son, even if he's not your biological son, and you can love someone like your father, even if he's not your biological father.

Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind.

Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.

The possibility to go on indefinitely with our lives may become a reality and it will present us with a temptation.