Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world.

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order.

Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of an ill temper.

Those who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and order are learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy and order.

To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.

Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.

Curiouser and curiouser.

I never want to see umbrellas around me." he [Mussolini] once said. "The umbrella is a bourgeois relic, it is the arm used by the pope's soldiers. A people who carry umbrellas cannot found an empire.

He said: I don't like to read. And I said, honey, you haven't found the right girl.

What was hard to bear is sweet to remember.

This is my vision-what I imagine I'll pass through on my way to the light. The blue sky, the clouds, the rays of light.

Probability is the very guide of life.

In the last century, everybody was singing lower.

Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

You have to know where you were going in order to get there.