An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character.

Mothers, whatever you wish your children to become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?

The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.

Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.

Fear is the white lipp'd sire Of subterfuge and treachery.

The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.

There must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin.

The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.

As nothing truly valuable can be attained without industry, so there can be no persevering industry without a deep sense of the value of time.

Something will be gathered from the tablets of the most faultless day for regrets.

Soul power supersedes mind power.

I'm the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox. But that's fine with me. I don't mind at all. Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.

To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.

The struggle to make an absolute statement in an individually conceived vocabulary accounts for the profound tensions inherent in the best modern work.

I'm a tropical weather cruiser. I like surfing, you know. I like being on the beach.

I found that dance was key to keeping depression out of my life.

I don't run around shooting people. Much. I only shoot two people a year. Maybe.

The part of life which we really live is short.

I think there is no place in the world where I feel closer to the Lord than in one of His holy temples.

Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares.