When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.