Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.