One truly affectionate soul in a family will evert a sweetening and harmonizing influence upon all its members.

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

Those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone.

Love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best.

Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air; And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair; And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome; But when it comes to living, there is no place like home.