A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes; for God himself sits behind them.

The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.

In the homes of America are born the children of America; and from them go out into American life, American men and women. They go out with the stamp of these homes upon them; and only as these homes are what they should be, will they be what they should be.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

Wealth is the least trustworthy of anchors.

The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.