What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.

There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.

Cupid "the little greatest god."

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

By writing much, one learns to write well.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.

You've got to capture as much of the room sound as possible. That's the very essence of it.

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.

How I treat my daughter today, is how my daughter will treat you, tomorrow.

The wings of prayer carry high and far.

Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.

The world belongs to passionate driven people.

You have to think like a designer. You have to establish the trend four seasons before it becomes popular.

Having courage does not mean that we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage mean we face our fears. We are able to say, 'I have fallen, but I will get up.'

A coach is often responsible to an irresponsible public.

This was the first place I everfelt strong. Every time I breathe this air I feel it again.