Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

The less routine the more life.

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.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

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 dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us if we take them tenderly and truly.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

There is virtue in country houses in gardens and orchards in fields streams and groves in rustic recreations and plain manners that neither cities nor universities enjoy.

Debate is masculine conversation is feminine.

Debate is angular conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.

Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.

Equanimity is the gem in virtues chaplet and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.

Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.

Success is sweet the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.

Without a mythology faith is impersonal and heartless.

Opposition strengthens the manly will.

Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars; actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll.

None can teach admirably if not loving his task.

All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.

It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time.

Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.

I was stuck at home in bed with me and got more and more involved with the Internet. I used it to keep in contact with friends and to make sure I was up to date with everything that was going on in the world.

I'm going to buy some green bananas because by the time I get home they'll be ripe.

Removing substantial fuel loads from our forests helps prevent catastrophic fire and better protects species, watersheds and neighboring communities that call them home.

I'm looking forward to providing the men of Seattle with an evening where they can kick back, light up a cigar and enjoy a night to themselves. Women, we can't technically keep you out, but please stay at home.