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

What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?

Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.

Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.

All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.