I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

Our foibles are really what make us lovable.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.

Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must we hold them and love them, nurture and teach them to fullness and leave them to be what they are.

As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies.

To create something you must be something.