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

Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.

Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.

Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.

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