The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.

The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence.

Education is an asset no man can take away.