None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Fear always springs from ignorance.
The years teach much the days never know.
Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.
Every wall is a door.
When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your’re the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years, how man would marvel and adore.
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.
Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.
There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.