Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
Men and women are but children of a larger growth.
A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.