Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?

Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.

Many are those who can argue; few are those who can converse