Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song which had lost its way and come to earth.

For right is right, since God is God.

For children is there any happiness which is not also noise?

Exactness in little things is a wonderful source of cheerfulness.

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

We strain hardest for things which are almost but not quite within our reach.