The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.

It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.

The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.

The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.