'Our best friends
Our best friends are not those who make life easy for us
Our best friends are not those who make life easy for us — our best friends are those who put courage, strength, and resolution into our hearts.
There are thousands of lives dwarfed and hurt irreparably by pampering .
Parents often, in the very warmth and eagerness of their love, do great harm to their children's lives by over-helping them; by doing things for them which it were better to teach them to do for themselves; by sparing them struggles, self-denials, and hardships, which it were far better for the children to meet.
Friendship is in constant danger of over-helping.
When one we love comes to us with a difficulty, it is love's first impulse to solve it for him — whereas it would be a thousand times better kindness if we put him in the way of solving it for himself.