Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression

The less routine the more life.

To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

Our ideals are our better selves.

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Many can argue; not many converse

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few

Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.