There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.

Create, artist, do not talk.

It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.

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.

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

Tomorrow sees undone, what happens not to-day; Still forward press, nor never tire! The possible, with steadfast trust, Resolve should be by the forelock grasp. Then she will ne'er let go her clasp, And labors on, because she must.

A purpose you impart is no longer your own.