Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine satisfaction which comes from hearty work of head or hand, and to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.

People cannot be molded like clay.

Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.

The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at each unconscious face, to kiss each with lips that mutely blessed, and to pray the fervent prayers which only mothers utter.

Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.

Don't try to make me grow up before my time.

Dear me, if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!