Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

The less routine the more life.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.