No matter what anyone is saying to you from outside, the most important conversation is the one you are having with yourself on the inside.
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.
And when the earth began to rumble and quake, as fear and frantic set in, he ran back inside the house past his wife and children, gathering all the valuables and things he thought of importance, and...
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his children. But as for a life well lived, no other monument is necessary.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
A stranger may find beauty in you yet.
Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
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.
