Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little each day; they are like vases with a narrow neck; you may pour little or pour much, but much will not enter at a time.

Our esteem is apt to be given where we know the least.

He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

You are one of the forces of nature.

Woman is the Sunday of man: not his repose only, but his joy; the salt of his life.

Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good.