Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.

Out of the chill and the shadow, into the thrill and the shine. Out of the dearth and the famine, into the fulness divine.

The people who dream are very often the people who see, and dreaming and seeing precede doing.

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

Kindness is the truest wisdom of life and we cannot go far without it.

No one should teach who is not in love with teaching.

On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was walking on a Southern highway, and a friend driving in a pony carriage passed me, stopped and said, "Have you heard that Charles Dickens is dead?" It was as if I had been robbed of one of my dearest friends.