Experience is the mother of custom.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she is also building schoolhouses. As long as war is possible, anything that makes better soldiers people want.

Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch; but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rack.

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

Love is the wine of existence.