Poetry: the best words in the best order.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

Silence does not always mark wisdom.

And in today already walks tomorrow.

He prayeth best who loveth best.

The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

A great mind must be androgynous.

If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

What comes from the heart goes to the heart

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.