“Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.”

“In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.”

“Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.”

“There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.”

“Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.”

“Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.”

“The living together for three long rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.”

“Experience is the extract of suffering.”

“Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.”

“If you would understand your own age read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.”

“Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.”