Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.

It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity.

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

What one has not experienced one will never understand in print.

Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.