Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Children, love one another, and if that is not possible-at least try to put up with one another.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.