Life is the gift of God, and is divine.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.

It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.

So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.

In the long run men hit only what they aim at.

A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood.