Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.

Opposition strengthens the manly will.

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

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.

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

A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.

Labor humanizes, exalts.