Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.

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

Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.

It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.

Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its enormous age,—lasting as space and time,—embosomed in time and space.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.