It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.

My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.

All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

Opportunity makes a thief.