Stephanie Bennett Henry

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

I’m just preparing my impromptu remarks.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.

It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.

Doing as others told me, I was blind. Coming when others called me, I was lost. Then I left everyone, myself as well. Then I found myself, myself as well.

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.