Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.

I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.