God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.

Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding corn for the horse you ride?

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.

Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.

Of all the scamps society knows, the traditional good fellow is the most despicable.

That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.