Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.

When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.

Things are achieved when they are well begun.

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.

Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.

'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.