One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Order and system are nobler things than power.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.

Not without design does God write the music of our lives.