We cannot change the world a whit,
Only ourselves, who look in it.
—Susan Coolidge.
I would say to all: use your gentlest voice at home. Watch it day by day, as a pearl of great price; for it will be worth to you in days to come more than the best pearl hid in the sea. A kind voice is joy, like a lark’s song, to a hearth at home. It is a light that sings as well as shines. Train it to sweet tones now, and it will keep in tune through life.
—Elihu Burritt.
In a world in which so many people wear the same clothes, live in the same house, eat the same dinner, and say the same things, blessed are the individuals who are not lost in the mob, who have their own thoughts, and live their own lives.
—Hamilton Wright Mabie.
There are people who go about the world looking for slights and they are necessarily miserable, for they find them at every turn.
—Drummond.
He who has a thousand rooms sleeps in but one.