One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.

Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.