Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change.

The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.

When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.

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

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

Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.

Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.