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

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

Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.

Love turns all the wheels of human industry, is the motive power under the world's machinery, makes worthwhile every enterprise on the earth, is coequal with life, outlasts death, and reaches onward into heaven.

Let every birthday be a festival, a time when the gladness of the house finds expression in flowers, in gifts, in a little fête. Never should a birthday be passed over without note, or as if it were a common day, never should it cease to be a garlanded milestone in the road of life.

Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.

Broadly speaking, nervous women may be divided into two classes - those who are really nervous, and those who imagine themselves to be so.