Love is like fire, a dangerous thing to play with, although the best of friends and the most loyal of servants when rightly handled.

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.

Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.

Mind does dominate body. We are superior to the house in which we dwell.

Theres nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.

I would not, if I could, give up the memory of the joy I have had in books for any advantage that could be offered in other pursuits or occupations. Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.