Always do what you are afraid to do.

Broader and deeper we must write our annals, from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience, if we would trulier express our central and wide-related nature, instead of this old chronology of selfishness and pride to which we have too long lent our eyes. Already that day exists for us, shines in on us at unawares, but the path of science and of letters is not the way into nature. The idiot, the Indian, the child, and unschooled farmer's boy, stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.

Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.

Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.