Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.

A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.

In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their "large loves and heavenly charities.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.