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.

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.

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

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.

You are here to live your purpose not to please others. If they truly respect you they will respect your choices too.

No matter how challenging the ensuing process may become at times, the inner light and love in the human heart always has the power to dispel darkness and ignorance.

We are all time travelers, we just don't know it yet.The only problem is that we only have a one way ticket, destination: FUTURE.

The person who does not meet God’s expectations has no right to expect God’s blessings.

He lived in terror of, well, becoming ordinary.

Inadequate love is love. Unrequited love is love.

We used to fight to the death but we tried the experiment, rolled the dice and like we got.

Republicans are taking the defeat over Health Care as well as Tiger Woods took to marriage.

Images are the currency of our age, but it's a toss-up whether live in a time of abundance or debasement.

Let us invoke a continuance of the same protecting care which has led us from small beginnings to the eminence we this day occupy.