Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.

This child whom we Love, Brings daylight Into our soul.

Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on.

When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.

God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.

For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.