Don't judge a book by its cover

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of earth, for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar, unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge.

Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,--the ties that have made others dependent on us,--and would cut them in two.