In the heart are three emotions—I felt them then: love, fear, and hatred. I could see that an individual could only have one of the three at a time.
Don't mistake activity with achievement.
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
I raised you so high that every other man on earth is now doomed to live in your shadow.
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.
A confident woman wears a smile and has this air of comfortability and pleasantness about her.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Eschew evil and it`s machinations.
Its really hard to recall the day you became friends with special people.