Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.

A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.

A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.