“Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.”

“The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.”

“I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving—we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.”

“The great thing in this world, is not so much where we are, but in which direction we are moving.”

“Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”

“A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.”

“The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.”