Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.
One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more;--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.