“Least said, soonest mended.”

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.

My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.

For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent’s love.

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we’d give blood.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth’s ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds.

Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Healing opportunities can be disguised as people who really piss you off. Pay attention because they could be your greatest teachers.

She is still healing in a quiet way.