“The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.” — Charles Dudley Warner

How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man.

The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.