What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.

The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.

What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.