“The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.”

Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.

Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.

Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do. The successful people don’t always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.

Bad husbands will make bad wives.

You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.

When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.

Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?

Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.

No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

Pray God, keep us simple.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

All men are the same. They just have different faces so that women differentiate them.

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

In the faces of men and women, I see God.