The Amen of nature is always a flower.

See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

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

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.

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.