all daughters, even when most aggravated by their mothers, have a secret respect for them. They believe perhaps that they can do everything better than their mothers can, and many things they can do better, but they have not yet lived long enough to be sure how successfully they will meet the major emergencies of life, which lie, sometimes quite creditably, behind their mothers.

Anger is like mild, it should not be kept too long.

Morale is not a single instinct. It has many ingredients. A sense of personal responsibility, the natural courage of an individual, the amount of his acquired self-discipline -- and above all his interest in others -- these together make up the spirit of morale.

A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.

We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.

it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.

Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.