Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.

Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.

It is the color which love wears, and cheerfulness, and joy--these three. It is the light in the window of the face by which the heart signifies to father, husband, or friend that it is at home and waiting.

There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.

Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.