The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.

The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.

Oftentimes great and open temptations are the most harmless because they come with banners flying and bands playing and all the munitions of war in full view, so that we know we are in the midst of enemies that mean us damage, and we get ready to meet and resist them. Our peculiar dangers are those that surprise us and work treachery in our fort.