A blessing on the printer's art!-- Books are the mentors of the heart.

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.

Rugged strength and radiant beauty-- These were one in Nature's plan; Humble toil and heavenward duty-- These will form the perfect man.

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imminent.

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.

To lose someone after you’ve loved them was tougher than losing them when you’ve never even met them.

There is only one answer to destruc-tiveness and that is creativity.

I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.

I think the barrier for a lot of people to actual, real, lasting love is the fantasy. The problem is that we think in "happily ever after" love, but real love grows over time, and priorities change.

The truth of the matter is President Trump brought together the Republican Party and the conservative movement.

It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men have dived for them because they fetch a high price.

My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me many things as we went together along the country by-ways.

Stalin is the most popular figure in all of Russia.

Temperance is the wisdom to know that not every constructive job requires a hammer.