It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know.

If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it, because she will rather be intent on acquiring more than on displaying what she has.

It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know.

Forgiveness saves the expense of anger.

In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

Names govern the world.