The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
The less routine the more life.
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.
Our ideals are our better selves.
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
