God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

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.

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

The most beautiful sight this earth affords is a man or woman so filled with love that duty is only a name, and its performance the natural outflow and expression of the love which has become the central principle of their life.

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift.

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.