Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
Books are the most mannerly of companions accessible at all times in all moods frankly declaring the author’s mind without offense.
To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
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.
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.