A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It can be and is often treasured by the recipient for life.

It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.

We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.

One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.

There is a realm where the rainbow never fades