The richest minds need not large libraries.

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.

When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.

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

Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.