Occupation: Author Birth: June 27, 1880 Death: June 1, 1968
Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land..
Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there..
I will eat grandfather for dinner..
Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society ….
Thus I came up out of Egypt and stood before Sinai, and a power divine touched my spirit and gave it sight, so that I beheld many wonders. And from t….
Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed..
You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles..
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble..
The highest result of education is tolerance..
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world..
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision..
When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body? Until the spirit of love for our fellow peo….
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and ….
There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference..
Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings..
The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart..
Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the word….
Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack e….
...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding..
Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you....
Touch each object as if tomorrow you would never be able to feel anything again..