Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.

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

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

Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience