The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.

I do not believe that the deeper problems of living can ever be answered by the process of thought. I believe that life itself teaches us either patience with regard to them, or reveals to us possible solutions when our hearts are pressed close against duties and sorrows and experiences of all kinds.

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace.

Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot at the wharves in ignoble anchorage.