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

Wants keep pace with wealth always.

There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.

We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.

It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny.

if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.

The secret of being loved is in being lovely; and the secret of being lovely is in being unselfish.