One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is right who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day, and be done with it. You have done what you could.

Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else.

When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student.

The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.