I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends.

Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great

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.

It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky.

The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.

I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.