Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can't take it with you . he'll try to take it with him.

The property of power is to protect.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

Sweet is pleasure after pain

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol