If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.

It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young.

People who quoted the Scriptures in criticism of others were terrible bores and usually they misapplied the text. One could prove anything against anyone from the Bible.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.