A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.

Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.

The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers.