He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart.

Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood

All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago

All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.

Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.