A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
- Margaret Fuller No legacy is so rich as honesty.
- Shakespeare
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
- Baltasar Gracian
If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
- Maria Edgeworth
To guide our own craft, we must be captain, pilot, engineer...
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
If we live truly, we shall see truly.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hope is a strange invention -
A Patent of the Heart -
In remitting action -
Yet never wearing out.
- Emily Dickinson
Welcome is the best cheer.
- Thomas Fuller
I haven't failed; I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.
- Ben Franklin
The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
- Joseph Addison
Not in the clamor of crowded streets,
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,
But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an "Honest Man."
- George Washington
Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit.
- Harriet Martineau
When I give, I give myself.
- Walt Whitman
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
- Aristotle
Ultimately, the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or friendship, is conversation.
- Oscar Wilde
The secret of love is that it is a gift, and that it can be made to grow only by giving it away.
- Kent Nerburn
Surely it is more generous to forgive and remember than to forgive and forget.
- Maria Edgeworth
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
- Tennyson
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
- Emily Dickinson
There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long.
- Louisa May Alcott
The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.
- Sarah Orne Jewett
Readiness is the mother of luck.
- Baltasar Gracin
The Possible's slow fuse is lit By the Imagination.
- Emily Dickinson
Saying nothing...sometimes says the most.
- Emily Dickinson
I am a part of all I have met.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
- John Locke
Sow an act and you reap a habit;
Sow a habit and you reap a character;
Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
- Francis Willard
The victories of character are instant and victories for all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is ... the open sesame to every soul.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time.
- Madame de Stal
It is life's enrichments rather than the riches in life that bring us true contentment.
- Sarah Ban Breathnach
What is life?
It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across the grass
and loses itself in the sunset.
- Crowfoot
My secret for keeping young and happy is I envy no one.
- Louisa May Alcott
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
- Sophocles
