Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions.
He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.