1. “Self respect is impossible without liberty.”
2. “A woman’s health is her capital.”
3. “Friendships are discovered rather than made.”
4. “The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”
5. “Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.”
6. “All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.”
7. “Eyes that never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.”
8. “The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.”
9. “Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.”
10. “The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.”
11. “Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.”
12. “The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.”
13. “There is more done with pens than with swords.”
14. “Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.”
15. “So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that will make itself felt without words.”
16. “People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.”
17. “Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgement.”
18. “The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.”
19. “There are griefs which grows with years.”
20. “Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.”
21. “Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.”
22. “Most mothers are instinctive philosophers .”
23. “Prayer is a long rope with a strong hold.”
24. “One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is and to let other people’s alone.”
25. “To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon this respectably.”
26. “Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light.”
27. “Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.”
28. “Humankind above all is lazy.”
29. “No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.”
30. “Sensitive people never like the fatigue of justifying their instincts.”
