God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.

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.

Life runs in a narrow path to balancing act, convincing tact, and satisfying fact.

One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy.

We never know beforehand how new posts or new work will change us.

A visual sense is something you either have or you don't.

Advice: Don’t wait until someone you have issues with — especially someone you’re related to — gets shot before you work it out.

Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!

How can you stay so calm?" It helps if you're terrified.

I'm more relaxed about life now that I'm older. I like it-despite the wrinkles. It's what I feel inside that's precious.

We try very quickly to show that we are not at war with the Iraqi people. We're trying to deal with the people who are indeed themselves at war with the Iraqi people.

Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find."