Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.

The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers surpassing our most disciplined modes of force, and virtues to which our life, social and political, becomes antagonistic in proportion as our civilisation advances - the more devoutly I pray that ages may yet elapse before there emerge into sunlight our inevitable destroyers.

Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.

Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.

Self-confidence is not hope; it is the self-judgment of your own internal forces in their relation to the world without, which results from the failure of many hopes and the non-realization of many fears.