Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

The great difficulty in education is that we give rules instead of inspiring sentiments. ... it is not possible to make rules enough to apply to all manner of cases; and if it were possible, a child would soon forget them. But if you inspire him with right feelings, they will govern his actions.

The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.

Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.

The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the gladness of childhood, and thetransient beauty of youth, are so apt to awaken in the bosom of the aged.

A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.