One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
Our ideals are our better selves.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
Who knows the mind has the key to all things else.
An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength not by my weakness.
Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure
Success is sweeter and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with delight and profit.
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
The less of routine, the more of life.
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary