 It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed. |
| If I love you, what business is it of yours? |
| We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us. |
| Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. |
| There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. |
| The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves. |
| Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen. |
| Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image. |
| Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world. |
| Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. |
| To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform. |
| It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him. |
| Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. |
| A useless life is an early death. |
| A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss. |
| No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others. |
| Character develops itself in the stream of life. |
| Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean. |
| Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. |
| Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers. |
