Every sin provokes its punishment.
Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
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.
One's outlook is a part of his virtue.