Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.

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

None can teach admirably if not loving his task.

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more;--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.

Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.

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

Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.