A mother's pride, a father's joy.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

Without a vivid picture of what you want, how can you reach it?

I love you, music man. You are my happily ever after.

I wonder who else in the world was having such an exquisite dawn.

A river has many curves, but it always reaches the ocean.

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.

Confidence. If you have it, you can make anything look good.

Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth.

The entire Earth will be converted into a huge brain

It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.

The biggest secret of focused people is that they don't think about focus.