Well, I aren't like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own counsel when there's no good i' speaking.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.

A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.

Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.