Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march.