Fire is the most tolerable third party

A hero's love is as delicate as a maiden's.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

Being a teacher is like being in jail; once it's on your record, you can never get rid of it.

To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.

Be assured that every man's success is in proportion to his average ability. The meadow flowers spring and bloom where the watersannually deposit their slime, not where they reach in some freshet only. A man is not his hope, nor his despair, nor yet his past deed. We know not yet what we have done, still less what we are doing. Wait till evening, and other parts of our day's work will shine than we had thought at noon, and we shall discover the real purport of our toil. As when the farmer has reached the end of the furrow and looks back, he can tell best where the pressed earth shines most.

Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.