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

Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.

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.

Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

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

Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.