"Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life."

"We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful."

"Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like."

"Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time."

"Leadership is not a title, it is the realization that the strength of a community lies in its compassion."

"I just feel that the only power I have is setting a good example."

"I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more."

"The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force."