We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
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