Husband and wife,--so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!

If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.

The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.

Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue.

A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it.

Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.

Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.

Offended self-love never forgives.

Curses are like processions. They return to the place from which they came.

Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past.

Stories first heard standing at a mother's knee, are never wholly forgotten, — a little spring that never quite dries up in our journey through scorching years.

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.

Our little actions of love, when put together, can make a big difference.

My primary goal is to create prosperity.

The bolt of Tash falls from above!' 'Does it ever get caught on a hook halfway?

I grew up in a village of about 800 people surrounded by lakes and woods, and I think it's made a definite impact on me.

You never know what your history is going to be like until long after you're gone.

And I'm not very coordinated, either. Only on ice skates, not in real life.

The road made wet by the water of August shines like it was cut in full moonlight

The purpose of America is to unleash the full talent and genius of every individual.

Be sincere; talk only about your genuine experience; do not distort, exaggerate or falsify that experience.