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

Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

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

Our ideals are our better selves.

Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament.

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