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.

Every child's birthright is a happy home.

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.

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

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