Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.

There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).

Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.