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

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.

Labor humanizes, exalts.

Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.

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.

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

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