Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.