Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.

Where did you come from, baby dear? Out of the everywhere and into here.

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given. For the morrow we are told to trust. It is not ours yet. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?

It is to the man who is trying to live, to the man who is obedient to the word of the Master, that the word of the Master unfolds itself.

The mind of the many is not the mind of God.

Here I should like to remark, for the sake of princes and princesses in general, that it is a low and contemptible thing to refuse to confess a fault, or even an error. If a true princess has done wrong, she is always uneasy until she has had an opportunity of throwing the wrongness away from her by saying: 'I did it; and I wish I had not; and I am sorry for having done it.