Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.

“Skill to do comes of doing.”

“There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues…”

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else …”

“Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other…”