Figure to yourself what the year would sustain were the spring taken away: such a loss do they sustain who trifle in youth.

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.

We have nothing to fear from others because approval and acceptance lies within ourselves.from Chapter 4

When hopeful and hopeless come together, both will learn great things from each other: Hopeful will learn the horror of being hopeless and the hopeless will learn the beauty of being hopeful!

My hope always when I am working with a new client is that I will cultivate a relationship with them: develop a dialogue and a way of working. This makes it easy for a star to trust you.

Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.

Because I can't hit bottom, I can't be saved.

Ego synthesized is selfhood, the sense of self-importance, that you really matter ... nothing could be further from the truth.

It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction.

Genuine dialogue, not rhetorical bomb-throwing, leads to progress.

There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man and not woman; and third, Greek and not barbarian.

I always keep my weather eye on the opposition of my seventh house Moon to my first house Mars.