Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes.

In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were.

Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

Women seldom forfeit their claims to respect to men whom they respect.