"Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease."

"Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired."

"Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember."

"Plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the law works to give you back more than you give."

"Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life."

"It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them."

"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire."

"A book holds a house of gold."

"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child."

"It is the mind that makes the man."

"The heart knoweth his own bitterness."

"'Where did you put it?' 'Put what?' 'You know?' 'Where do you think?' 'Oh.'"