Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.

The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.

To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.

Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.