Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

True humility is contentment.

Order is power.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

The best path through life is the highway.