Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.

Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.

Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament.

Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.

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

The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.

Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.