True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.

Light is the task when many share the toil.

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

. . . For slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.

You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was really made from his funny bone.

The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail. - The House of Gold.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.

Clock: A small mechanical device to wake up people without children.

. . . for righteous monarchs, Justly to judge, with their own eyes should see; To rule o'er freemen, should themselves be free.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.

"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail! See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance: They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and join the dance?"

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.

The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates.

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.