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

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.