Children are marvelously and intuitively correct physiognomists. The youngest of them exhibit this trait.

We must learn that competence is better than extravagance, that worth is better than wealth, that the golden calf we have worshiped has no more brains than that one of old which the Hebrews worshiped. So beware of money and of money's worth as the supreme passion of the mind. Beware of the craving for enormous acquisition.

Patience is nobler motion than any deed.

Freedom is not caprice but room to enlarge.

Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent.

True men and women are all physicians to make us well.

Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to make us also happy, by sickness, disaster and disappointment.