The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

A man who does not love praise is not a full man.

A babe is a mother's anchor.

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.

The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.

October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.

I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.