October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she is also building schoolhouses. As long as war is possible, anything that makes better soldiers people want.

Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.

Ignorance is the womb of monsters.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.

Mountains of gold would not seduce some men, yet flattery would break them down.