A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.

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.

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.

The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.

Real men don't conform to the beliefs of others, even when society has concluded on what is good and true, but maintain the integrity of their own mind.