Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
The less of routine, the more of life.
To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?
Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
Ignorance is innocence – stupidity comes with experience.
Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all.
Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.
Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.