Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.