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

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.

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

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

Memory is a trustworthy servant as long as it is made to serve.

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