A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.

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

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.

Many can argue - not many converse.

Our ideals are our better selves.

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