Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
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.
Our favorites are few; since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey.