The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.

A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.

Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience

Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.

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

One's outlook is a part of his virtue.