Value

The right to be alone, the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world

They that have lived a single day have lived an age

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing

Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think

Economy is half the battle of life. It is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well.

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

By far the best proof is experience

Free things always hurt

O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, -- the first fluttering of its silken wings.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love