My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.

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

A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.

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

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

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

Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.