Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better.

Fame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient.

Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls.

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

I hate ordinary people!

It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.