There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything.

It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice; those who follow him find it broken, and the last find it gone. It is the men or women who first tread down the path which the bulk of humanity will ultimately follow, who must find themselves at last in solitudes where the silence is deadly.

The surest sign of fitness is success.

the brain works better if the hand works too.

A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again.

Love that has been given to you is too sacred a thing to be talked of to anyone ... except just to the person who is like part of you and who will feel it as you do.