Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.

But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so few vicissitudes that it could hardly have been written; for the happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good; some little grace; one kindly thought; one aspiration yet unfelt; one bit of courage for the darkening sky; one gleam of faith to brave the thickening ills of life; one glimpse of brighter skies beyond the gathering mists - to make this life worthwhile.

In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.