If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.