If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.

When the heart is won, the understanding is easily convinced.

If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.

It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.