There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.

A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.

There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.

A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.

A prudent consideration for Number One.