Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.

We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.

Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind.

Limitation of aims is the mother of wisdom and the secret of achievement.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.

A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.